Question

I want to parse a file and I want to use php and regex to strip:

• blank or empty lines
• single line comments
• multi line comments

basically I want to remove any line containing

/* text */  

or multi line comments

/*** some text *****/ 

If possible, another regex to check if the line is empty (Remove blank lines)

Is that possible? can somebody post to me a regex that does just that?

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

$text = preg_replace('!/\*.*?\*/!s', '', $text); $text = preg_replace('/\n\s*\n/', '\n', $text);