Regex to match a C-style multiline comment

Question

I have a string for e.g.

String src = \"How are things today /* this is comment *\\*/ and is your code  /*\\* this is another comment */ working?\"
         


        

Answer 1

System.out.println(src.replaceAll("\\/\\*.*?\\*\\/ ?", ""));

You have to use the non-greedy-quantifier ? to get the regex working. I also added a ' ?' at the end of the regex to remove one space.