Re: RE question

[Dan Haskovec <pry.dan@com>]

$foo =~ m|/\*[^*/]*\*/|;

Also look at the concept of "greedy matching," can't remember the operator
for that exactly. That way you could just match the first close comment.

dan


On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Doug Shea wrote:

>     So what I'm getting at here, I want to match an open comment ("/*"),
> then anything that DOESN'T include an open comment, then a close comment
> ("*/"). I think that'll do it, but I don't know how to specify an RE
> that means "anything that doesn't include"...