[Closed] MAXScript find and remove specified string from text file

Jan 21, 2021 5:21 pm

How to remove all the text between the characters /* and */ (including these characters as well) in a text file? I need this to clear the code text of any comment lines. Thank you.

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Serejah

Jan 21, 2021 5:21 pm

you can use these patterns combined with (dotNetClass “System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegEx”).Replace to remove the comments

local block_comment = "\/\*(\*(?!\/)|[^*])*\*\/\r*\n*"
local line_comment  = "(--[^\r\n]*\r*\n*)"

gsystems

Jan 21, 2021 5:21 pm

This works great, thanks!