I'm trying to clean up some Lua code files using a Python script and regex by removing comments. I'm using the following regular regular expression to find multiline comments: "--\[\[[^]\]]+"
For example:
--[[ This is a comment
on multiple lines
that needs to be removed ]]
The expression picks these up without a problem. However, there are also comments like this:
--[[
if thing == "whatever" or thing == "whateeeever" then
self:print( ">" .. thing.. params[2] .. " something " )
-- printing the thing
]]
On a comment like this, the regex only captures until the first ] on the end of params[2] instead of all the way to ]]
Can anyone provide me a working regex that captures everything, including square brackets?
