[SOLVED] Removing comments

[lococobra]

So lets say I have some code such as...

echo "test";
//here's some stuff i dont want to see
echo "okay"; //other stuff
echo "blah";
/* and a 
multi line comment
That ends */ here

 

This code is contained in $code

 

Then I run this on it....

$code = preg_replace("/(\/\/)(.*?)([\n\r])/", '', $code);
$code = preg_replace("/(\/\*)(.*?)(\*\/)/", '', $code);

 

And it becomes...

echo "test";
echo "okay"; 
echo "blah";
/* and a 
multi echo "text"; line comment
That ends */ here

 

Could someone tell me how to fix the pattern of the 2nd one?

 

 

[effigy]

Why are you using capturing parentheses?

A . will not cross new line boundaries without the /s modifier.

[lococobra]

Yeah, I figured it out already. All I had to do was add /s to the end.

[fachru]

i'm still newbie here....sorry i still don't get about how to eliminate comment between

/*....

..... multi line

.....*/

tag

 

where should i add /s ???

 

sorry still newbie ;D

[effigy]

Regular Expressions use patterns. Patterns must be kept within delimiters. Modifiers go behind the last delimiter, like so:

 

/pattern/modifiers