[solved] RegEx for comments

[brown monkey]

How do I catch up the C# comments?

// This is a comment
/// This is a comment
/* This
   is
   a
   comment
*/

        $comments="/(\/\/.*\n)/";
        $string=preg_replace($comments,"<span style='color:#007700'>$1</span>",$string);

Didn't work. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[CornedBee]

I would recommend you do it in two steps, once for the // and once for the /* */ comments.

cpp_comment = '|(//.*)\n|';
$string=preg_replace($cpp_comment,"<span style='color:#007700'>$1</span>\n",$string);
c_comment = '|(/\*.*\*/)|s';
$string=preg_replace($c_comment,"<span style='color:#007700'>$1</span>",$string);

[brown monkey]

Thank you CornedBee.

[visualAd]

Don't forget to turn off the greediness:

c_comment = '/(\\/\\*.*\\*\\/)/sU'; 

[brown monkey]

Ok. I'll remember that. Thank you again. Thank you.