I am looking for a Regex to match comments in XML documents:
<root> <!-- match this --> <but>not this</but> <!-- and also this --> </root> I've tried <!--[^(-->)]*-->, which only matches single line comments, and <!--[\s\S\n]*--> which matches non-commented nodes as well.
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The regex you're looking for would be:
<!--[\s\S\n]*?--> Explanation:
<!-- All comments must begin with this [\s\S\n] Any character (. doesn't allow newlines) * 0 or more of the previous thing ([\s\S\n]) ? As few of the previous thing as possible while still matching --> All comments must end with this If you have a comment inside a comment this will have issues though:
<!-- Documentation
This program documents itself using comments of the type <!-- -->
-->
Highlighted in bold means a match
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