Removing the comments from a string

Question

I\'d like to do a function which gets a string and in case it has inline comments it removes it.

public class sample {

    public static void main(String[] arg         


        

Answer 1

replaceAll("((/\\*)[^/]+(\\*/))|(//.*)", "")

This will remove single line, multi-line or doc comments.

The JavaScript compatible regex is ((/\*)[^/]+(\*/))|(//.*), which you can try with regexpal.com.