From: Adam Bozanich <adam.boz@...>
Date: 2007-04-18T01:45:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression help 2

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On 4/17/07, Guest <james@dimsum.tv> wrote:
>
> Okay had such a great response before and learned lots but how about
> another question?
>
> have some strings such as:
>
> blahblah /* comment */
> blahblah
> blah blah
> blah blah blah /* comment etc */
>
> And i want just the blahblah bit, not any comments if there are any.



str =<<-EOS
blahblah /* comment */
blahblah
blah blah
blah blah blah /* comment etc */
EOS

puts str.gsub(/\/\*.*/,'')

This won't work for multi-line comments unfortunately.

-Adam

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