Regular expression to find C style block comments [duplicate]

Question

How to find this pattern using regex?

C style block comments

/* xxxxxxxxxxxx */

Answer 1

Try using

\/\*(\*(?!\/)|[^*])*\*\/ 

to capture single line and multi-line block comments. It searches for /* followed by any number of either:

• an * that is not followed by a /
• any char except *

and then the closing */ again.