Eclipse Find/Replace with Regex to comment lines

Question

I have some classes that contains comments like as follow:

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/*     */ 
/*     */   public void startApplication()
/*     */   {
/*  57 */     initializeFields();
/*  58 */     this.run = true;
/*  59 */     new Thread(this).start();
/*     */   }
/*     */ 
/*     */   public void stopApplication() {
/*  63 */     this.run = false;
/*     */   }
/*     */ 
/*     */   public void run()
/*     */   {
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And i have to clean all /* */ strings in my classes. Which regex should i use to do this with using Eclipse's Find/Replace tool?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered May 10 '12 at 08:21

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This is Jd-GUi, I've already needed the same regex :)

/\*.*?\*/

answered May 10 '12 at 08:21

Marko Topolnik

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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Hit CTRL+SPACE on the text boxes it will give you suggestions for regular expressions. You can fin more details in this discussion

edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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answered May 10 '12 at 08:25

Mehdi

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 10 '12 at 08:23

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You can use: /\*\s+\d*\s+\*/, or if you also want to strip the space before the code, presuming it's a tab, use /\*\s+\d*\s+\*/\t. Optionally change that last tab for a specific number of spaces - if you just use \s+, for instance, it will lose your indentation, which you don't want!

answered May 10 '12 at 08:23

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This is JD-GUI's output, the simplest of regex will do :) – Marko Topolnik May 10 '12 at 08:25
With regex, simple is always better, when the situation allows ;) – LeonardChallis May 10 '12 at 08:29
Yes, and in this particular circumstance, since you are running the regex against a generated source code file, there's no other, useful comments you need to worry about. – Marko Topolnik May 10 '12 at 08:32

Eclipse Find/Replace with Regex to comment lines

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