regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Substitution Workspace

Pro

1st Alternative//.*

//the literal text //

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

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

/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

Group with flags gs(?s:.*?)

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

\*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

3rd Alternative("(?:(?<!\\)(?:\\\\)*\\"|[^\r\n"])*")

Group 1("(?:(?<!\\)(?:\\\\)*\\"|[^\r\n"])*")

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:(?<!\\)(?:\\\\)*\\"|[^\r\n"])*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

1st Alternative(?<!\\)(?:\\\\)*\\"

Negative Lookbehind(?<!\\)

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

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

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

2nd Alternative[^\r\n"]

Negated Character Class[^\r\n"]

\ra carriage return (ASCII 13)

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

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

25 tokens

Regular Expression

//.*|/\*(?s:.*?)\*/|("(?:(?<!\\)(?:\\\\)*\\"|[^\r\n"])*")

New

    String str1 = "SUM 10"      /*This is a Comments */ ;   
    String str2 = "SUM 10";     //This is a Comments"  
    String str3 = "http://google.com";   /*This is a Comments*/
    String str4 = "('file:///xghsghsh.html/')";  //Comments
    String str5 = "{\"temperature\": {\"type\"}}";  //comments
abc /*def
foo*/ bar
"xxx\"xxx\\"
"xxx\\\"xxx\\\\"

Extraction

    String str1 = "SUM 10"      /*This is a Comments */ ;   
    String str2 = "SUM 10";     //This is a Comments"  
    String str3 = "http://google.com";   /*This is a Comments*/
    String str4 = "('file:///xghsghsh.html/')";  //Comments
    String str5 = "{\"temperature\": {\"type\"}}";  //comments
abc /*def
foo*/ bar
"xxx\"xxx\\"
"xxx\\\"xxx\\\\"