Remove comments from a text file in Java

Question

Is there an easy way to remove comments from a text file in Java.

now:

:-  /* #pos=1,513 */ author(A, UniqueVar1)

after:

author(A, UniqueVar1)

I used BufferedReader and readline to read and split lines.

Answer 1

try the following:

line.replaceAll("(?:/\\*(?:[^*]|(?:\\*+[^*/]))*\\*+/)|(?://.*)|(?::-)","");