How can I strip multiline C comments from a file using Perl?

Question

Can anyone get me with the regular expression to strip multiline comments and single line comments in a file?

eg:

                  \" WHOLE         


        

Answer 1

Remove /* */ comments (including multi-line)

s/\/\*.*?\*\///gs

I post this because it is simple, however I believe it will trip up on embedded comments like

/* sdafsdfsdf /*sda asd*/ asdsdf */

But as they are fairly uncommon I prefer the simple regex.