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

[email protected] (Jonesy)
Newsgroups php.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 28 May 2013 14:17:06 -0700, 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...

KISS.

To make it simple, straight-forward, and understandable next year when I 
have to re-read what I've written:

I'd change all "://" to "QqQ"  -- or any unlikely text string.

Then I'd do whatever needs to be done to the "//" occurances.

Finally, I'd change all "QqQ" back to "://".

Jonesy
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