Remove comments from text file in Java

Question

Is there any easy way to remove the comments from the text file in Java.

now:

:-  /* #pos=1,513 */ author(A, UniqueVar1)

after:

author(A, UniqueVar1)

I used BufferedReader and readline to read and split the lines.

Answer 1

try this:

line.replaceAll("(?:/\\*(?:[^*]|(?:\\*+[^*/]))*\\*+/)|(?://.*)|(?::-)","");