[REMIYA]

I want to strip the single line and multi line comments wrapped in /* */.

The following RegEx does exatly that, but strips the comments also and in the strings.

PHP Code:

 



//Strips all the multi-line and single-line /* */comments even in strings ""



$pattern ="/\/\\*[\\s\\S]*?\\*\//";



$replacement = "THE COMMENT HAS BEEN HERE";



echo nl2br(preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $phpcode)); 

So an initial code of:

PHP Code:

 



/*



This is a multiline comment



*/



 



/* This is a single line comment */



 



echo "Hi, /* This is a single line comment in a string*/"; 

Processed through the above RegEx returns:

PHP Code:

 THE COMMENT HAS BEEN HERE



 



THE COMMENT HAS BEEN HERE



 



echo "Hi, THE COMMENT HAS BEEN HERE"; 

I've done a lot of testing with RegExs, but all was in vain. So was the search through Internet.

Is there any solution to the problem using RegEx?

Please, test before you post.

[NeverMind]

http://www.php.net/tokenizer

[dennispopel]

http://php.paco.net/manual/en/functi...whitespace.php

[REMIYA]

Originally Posted by NeverMind

http://www.php.net/tokenizer

Thank you, I haven't seen this by now

[REMIYA]

Originally Posted by dennispopel

http://php.paco.net/manual/en/functi...whitespace.php

This function is very good. But it takes a file.

So I'll have to save the source code to a temporary file, proceed it through this function, and grab the result.

Is there a dynamic solution, as to pass the source code as a String?

[dennispopel]

Hello,

Unfortuanately many functions in PHP work this stupid way - only thru a file name. If PHP had some nice streams framework like Java has, it would be possible to pipe the string thru a memory stream to this function.