Powershell - Remove C++ comments from file

Question

I'm new to powershell and need some help. I want to use the replace function to remove all the comments from C++ source code. That is single and multiline comments:

/*
    Comment here.
*/

// Comment here.

Can someone help me with the powershell regex for this?

Powershell regular expressions are not in any way special. Have you tried simply using the regex somebody else has written) (Regexes that match C-style language comments have been written, you will find any number of examples.) — Tomalak, Apr 09 '15 at 14:03
http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[regex]+[javascript]+comments http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[regex]+[java]+comments http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[regex]+[c]+comments take a look at any of these — Tomalak, Apr 09 '15 at 14:10

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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Take a look at this answer.

In Powershell you can also use Regex.Replace but in a slightly different way:

[regex]::Replace($input, $pattern, $replacement)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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answered Apr 09 '15 at 14:12

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Fantastic. That worked. – goocreations Apr 09 '15 at 14:56

Powershell - Remove C++ comments from file

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