Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternative(\/\*[\w\'\s\r\n\*]*\*\/)

Group 1(\/\*[\w\'\s\r\n\*]*\*\/)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

Character Class[\w\'\s\r\n\*]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

\wany word character

\'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

\sany whitespace character

\ra carriage return (ASCII 13)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

\*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

2nd Alternative(\/\/[\w\s\']*)

Group 2(\/\/[\w\s\']*)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Character Class[\w\s\']*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

\wany word character

\sany whitespace character

\'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

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26 tokens

Regular Expression

(\/\*[\w\'\s\r\n\*]*\*\/)|(\/\/[\w\s\']*)

New

/*api.runTests(true);*/
//asdfasdf


/*
field.activate(true);
*
*/

/*

*/

/****
 * Common multi-line comment style.
 ****/
 
/****
 * Another common multi-line comment style.
 */

Substitution

/*api.runTests(true);*/
//asdfasdf


/*
field.activate(true);
*
*/

/*

*/

/****
 * Common multi-line comment style.
 ****/
 
/****
 * Another common multi-line comment style.
 */