Massive remove of Javadoc empty comments in Eclipse project (at beginning of file only)

Question

I have many empty Javadoc comments at beginning of many Java files in my project.

/**
 * 
 */
package com.name.app
// etc. etc.

How to remove all of them using Eclipse?

Take a peek [at this question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9078528/tool-to-remove-javadoc-comments) (as a starting point...) — negacao, Nov 03 '17 at 15:14
Possible duplicate of [Regular expression finding empty comments in code](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17471230/regular-expression-finding-empty-comments-in-code) — Lonzak, Apr 16 '18 at 09:54

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 03 '17 at 15:20

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I found the required regex ...

With Search menu, File, put this in Containing text with "Regular expression" checked :

\A/\*\*(\s|\*)+\*/

Hope it helps for others.

answered Nov 03 '17 at 15:20

Mauricio

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Better use `\A/\*\*[\s*]+\*/` - it is more efficient. – Wiktor Stribiżew Nov 03 '17 at 20:58

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