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On 21 Feb 2003, Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> wrote:

> > The regexp /*[^\(*/\)]*/ will find C comments in a non-greedy fashion.
> > Does this help your stack problems?
> 
> It will find any comment which has no *, no /, no (, no ), and no \ in
> its text.  I don't think that's quite what you wanted, so I presume
> you slightly misunderstand the way [...] works.  Check out the
> manual again.
> 

Try: /\*[^*]*\*+\([^/*][^*]*\*+\)*/