Re: [PHP] need some regex help to strip out // comments but not http:// urls

On 28.05.2013 23:17, Daevid Vincent wrote:
> I'm adding some minification to our cache.class.php and am running into an
> edge case that is causing me grief.
>
> I want to remove all comments of the // variety, HOWEVER I don't want to
> remove URLs...
>

You need a negative look behind assertion
( http://www.php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.assertions.php ).

"(?<!http:)//" will match "//" only if it isn't preceded by "http:".

Bye, Andreas