> This question only makes me frown. According to the C standard, C style
> comments CANNOT be nested, . Yet it looks to me as if that is what
> you're asking for.
thank you for the reply.
in jsp this is perfectly normal - it just so happens that
javascript also uses the c-style comments (as well as c++).
so you have
clientside comments mixed with serverside comments in the
same file (obviously resulting client-code would not include
the server-side comments).
> Nested things cannot be treated with a regex alone.
i wasn't asking for a single regexp
> You need a (simple)
> parser, one that balances out the delimiters. And since for comments the
> delimiters needn't be balanced, e.g. this looks OK to me:
>
> /* <% */ %>
>
> then, what you're asking for is not really possible. Or, you should
> specify the rules better.
ok, they have to be balanced inside each language so to speak.
so in my example:
if (i == 0) {
/* javascript c-style
var j = 10;
// if (i == 1) {
<%
/*jsp c-style */ <---- BALANCED jsp c-style
int d = 100; // some java comments
%>
*/ <---- BALANCED javascript c-style
var j = 11; // more javascript-comments
}
