Regex to remove multi line comments
javascript, regex
Solution
the dot catches everything except newlines..( if the dotall is false )
so either use the dotall ( as mentioned in other answers/comments this is not supported in javascript, but i will leave it here for reference )
/\/\*(.*)\*\//gs
or add the whitespace chars `\s` in your expressions
/\/\*((\s|.)*?)\*\//g
Alan mentioned in his comment a bad performance from the answer i gave so use the following instead.. ( which translates to everything whitespace and everything non whitespace, so everything.. )
/\/\*([\s\S]*?)\*\//g
Problem
I am trying to use this regex (JS): ``` /\/\*(.*)\*\//g ``` To replace ``` /* sdandsads */ ``` with nothing. But it is not working! Why? o_O