Regular Expressions 101

1st Alternative\/\*(?:.|[\r\n])*?\*\/

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:.|[\r\n])*?

*?repeats the group contents below any number of times:

1st Alternative.

.any Unicode character (except for line terminators)

2nd Alternative[\r\n]

Character Class[\r\n]

\ra carriage return (ASCII 13)

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

\*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

2nd Alternative(?:\/\/.*)

Non-Capturing Group(?:\/\/.*)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

.*any Unicode character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Global pattern flags

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

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

\/\*(?:.|[\r\n])*?\*\/|(?:\/\/.*)

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