Question

I can’t get my regex to match the header of a c# code file.
I basically want need to return the header if it exists.

Example:

#define debug
//****************************************************************************************************
//  <copyright file="" company="">
//      Copyright (c) . All rights reserved.
//  </copyright>
//  <project>Engine</project>
//****************************************************************************************************

code here

//some other comment here

more code here

//another comment here

My regex looks like this:

(?:/\\*(?:[^*]|(?:\\*\+[^*/]))*\\*\+/)|(?://.*)

but it only matches this line:
//**********************************************************

and not the rest of the comment.

Comments can also end like this "*/".

whats wrong with my regex? why doesn’t it catch the whole block?

Answer 1

Try this one – and you can pull out the entire comment (with the “//” or the group within to get just the text. This will return a match for each line. Please use the “Multiline” option to run this:

^/[/|*](.+)$