Regular Expression to find the start and end of a javadoc comment?

[BFP]

Hi.

Is it possible to use a regular expression (in TextPad) to find the following?

    /**
     * Some comment
     * ...
     */
        public foo(foo);

That is, I want to start finding the "/**", then "*/", then ";"

Is this possible with a single regular expression?

Thanks in Advanced,

BFP

 

[jemminger]

you cannot match line breaks with repetition operators in textpad, so you cannot write a regex to find a javadoc comment spanning an arbitrary number of lines. your regex would be able to match only a specific length javadoc comment, e.g. to find the comment above:

[[:space:]]*\/\*\*[[:space:]]*\n.*\n.*\n.*\*\/[[:space:]]*

-jeff

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