Regular expression to match an HTML comment

chao (Chao Lam) — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:45:13 GMT

// description of your code here
This snippet uses the non-greedy matcher, and the "m" option to treat strings as multi-lines, so it may not work with all regex parsers.



/\)/m



Examples in Ruby IRB:

irb(main):029:0> html = <<-EOL

irb(main):030:0"  Second Comment 

irb(main):033:0" EOL

=> " Second Comment \n"

irb(main):075:0> m = html.match(/\)/m)

=> #

irb(main):076:0> m[0]

=> ""

irb(main):077:0> m[1]

=> "  First  Comment   --\n      "

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Regular expression to match an HTML comment