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Hi All
I have a urgent problem with the regex object. I am currently reading in source code files (complete file including newline characters) as plain text into a string. i am then using a regex object to remove c-style multiline comments of the form /* ... */. My regular expression is /\*.*?\*/ and i have also turned on the regex singleline option that allows the dot character to match newline characters. the Regex is not matching the RE. Has anyone got any ideas why not, any help would be most appreciated

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Andy
Jul 21 '05 #1
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