Regular Expressions 101

Non-Capturing Group(?:\/\*+[^*]*\*+(?:[^\/*][^*]*\*+)*\/\r?\n)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\*+the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆) , repeated at least once

Negated Character Class[^*]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

\*+the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆) , repeated at least once

Non-Capturing Group(?:[^\/*][^*]*\*+)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negated Character Class[^\/*]

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^*]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

\*+the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆) , repeated at least once

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\r?optionally matches a carriage return (ASCII 13)

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

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

Character Class[;,]

;the literal ; (59₁₀ / 73₈ / 3B₁₆)

,the literal , (44₁₀ / 54₈ / 2C₁₆)

$end of line

Global pattern flags

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

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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Search reference

Regular Expression

(?:\/\*+[^*]*\*+(?:[^\/*][^*]*\*+)*\/\r?\n)?.*[;,]$

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/**
 * Here there's a comment I don't want to find,
 * but after this comment I do
 */
detectMe;
other,