It occured to me in the car that in some regex engines / may be a
metacharacter and that if you are using grep, you want to do cat ... |
grep -v (same regex) | grep class and it should work.
Justin Georgeson wrote:
>
> I seem to be having trouble nailing down a regexp. If I have a file that
> looks like this:
>
> // class alpha
>
> /* class beta
> * class gamma
> class delta
> */ class epsilon
>
> /* some comment */ class zeta
>
> I want it to ignore class alpha, class beta, class gamma, and class
> delta. I can live with it accepting class delta even though it
> shouldn't, but the other three I'd rather deal with.
>
> This is what I have so far to figure what's a comment and what's not:
>
> (([^\/][^\*\/])|(\*\/)|(\/\*.*\*\/))
>
> I though the first group would mean don't start with /* or //, but the
> beta is accepted. If I had ([^\*]) to it, then alpha is accepted too.
>
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