Regular expression to get multi line comment

[Rob]

Hello all,

If I have the following code fragment:
/*
comment bla bla
*/
....code...

With a regular expression, how do I get/extract the comment inside this
multi line comment block. With and without the comment characters?
And how do I get all the multi line comment from in the entire script?
(yes I have red the documentation, but obviously this wasn't enough ;-) )
Thanks in advance
Rob

[Daniel Tryba]

In comp.lang.php Rob <re***@newsgroup.nl> wrote:

If I have the following code fragment:
/*
comment bla bla
*/
...code...

With a regular expression, how do I get/extract the comment inside this
multi line comment block. With and without the comment characters?
And how do I get all the multi line comment from in the entire script?
(yes I have red the documentation, but obviously this wasn't enough ;-) )

What documentation did you read? AFAIK there is mention of a multiline
flag in the preg section. So all you do need to do is do a nongreedy
multiline match for /\/\*.*?/*///.

FUP comp.lang.php

[Rob]

"Daniel Tryba" <pa**********@invalid.tryba.nl> schreef in bericht
news:42*********************@news6.xs4all.nl...

In comp.lang.php Rob <re***@newsgroup.nl> wrote:

If I have the following code fragment:
/*
comment bla bla
*/
...code...

With a regular expression, how do I get/extract the comment inside this
multi line comment block. With and without the comment characters?
And how do I get all the multi line comment from in the entire script?
(yes I have red the documentation, but obviously this wasn't enough
-) )

What documentation did you read? AFAIK there is mention of a multiline
flag in the preg section. So all you do need to do is do a nongreedy
multiline match for /\/\*.*?/*///.

FUP comp.lang.php

Thanks for the fast reply,

I red the docs on the www.php.net

I used it in the following code:

$code=<<<end_of_code

/**
* comment 1
*/

codeblock 1

/**
* comment 2
*/

codeblock 2

end_of_code;

$pattern='/\/\*.*?/*///';

if (preg_match($pattern,$code,$array=array())){
print_r($array);
}

I receive the following error:Warning: Unknown modifier '*' in
What do i do wrong?

Thanks Rob

[Daniel Tryba]

Rob <re***@newsgroup.nl> wrote:

I red the docs on the www.php.net
All of them?
$pattern='/\/\*.*?/*///';

if (preg_match($pattern,$code,$array=array())){
print_r($array);
}

I receive the following error:Warning: Unknown modifier '*' in
What do i do wrong?

You copy and pasted my regexp :) It should be /\/\*.*?\*\//

But still missing is multiline support:
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/referen....modifiers.php
and
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/functio...-match-all.php

[Daedalus]

Try this:

$pattern = '/\/\*(.*)\*\//Us';
preg_match_all($pattern, $string, $result);

$result[0] is an array containing every matches (including /* */) and
$result[1] is another array containing every matches from the first captured
parenthesized subpattern (in this case it only exclude /* */).
Use:
print_r($result);
to view the results

Dae

"Rob" <re***@newsgroup.nl> wrote in message
news:d1*********@reader10.wxs.nl...

Hello all,

If I have the following code fragment:
/*
comment bla bla
*/
...code...

With a regular expression, how do I get/extract the comment inside this
multi line comment block. With and without the comment characters?
And how do I get all the multi line comment from in the entire script?
(yes I have red the documentation, but obviously this wasn't enough ;-) )
Thanks in advance
Rob

[Rob]

"Daniel Tryba" <pa**********@invalid.tryba.nl> schreef in bericht
news:42*********************@news6.xs4all.nl...

Rob <re***@newsgroup.nl> wrote:

I red the docs on the www.php.net

All of them?

$pattern='/\/\*.*?/*///';

if (preg_match($pattern,$code,$array=array())){
print_r($array);
}

I receive the following error:Warning: Unknown modifier '*' in
What do i do wrong?

You copy and pasted my regexp :) It should be /\/\*.*?\*\//

But still missing is multiline support:
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/referen....modifiers.php
and
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/functio...-match-all.php

Thanks,

Adding multiline support(?s) didnot do the trick as explained in the docs.
But the following pattern did:

$pattern='/\*[^*]*\*+([^/*][^*]*\*+)*/';

Rob