Eclipse Find/Replace with Regex to comment lines

Question

I have some classes that contains comments like as follow:

...
...
...
/*     */ 
/*     */   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?

Marko Topolnik · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-10 08:21:47Z

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

/\*.*?\*/

answered May 10, 2012 at 8:21

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:19:16Z

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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

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answered May 10, 2012 at 8:25

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LeonardChallis · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-10 08:23:05Z

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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, 2012 at 8:23

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Marko Topolnik Over a year ago

This is JD-GUI's output, the simplest of regex will do :)

LeonardChallis Over a year ago

With regex, simple is always better, when the situation allows ;)

Marko Topolnik Over a year ago

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.

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