Removing comments from a file

[wcboyd]

Hello All,

I have a file with comments that span more than one line.
The comments start with /* and end with */
Is it possible to use the find/replace option to remove these multiline comments? Or perhaps a macro?

Thanks,

Craig

[Bob Hansen]

TextPad RegEx cannot easily ready multiple lines. Ir there is a fixed number, some tricks can be done. But if the comments are all on the same line, even if word wrapped, these will work for you. A few different possibilities:

Text:
/* These are comments, and this is more and this continues and does a word wrap on to the next line and finally ends with closing symbols on the next line.
*/

Search for: /\*.*\n\*/
Replace with nothing.
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Text:
/*
These are comments, and this is more and this continues and does a word wrap on to the next line and finally ends with closing symbols on the next line.
*/

Search for: /\*\n.*\n\*/
Replace with nothing.
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Use the following settings:
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[X] Regular expression
Replace All
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Configure | Preferences | Editor
[X] Use POSIX regular expression syntax
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I think that you can use Wild Edit to remove the comments when there are random quantity of mulltiple lines of comments. Cannot test that out now.....