How to remove all comments from a string using regular expressions in php?

Question

PHP

Hello!
I'm learning regular expressions.
Decided to remove multi-line comments from the string - /* blah blah blah */
Compiled the wrong regular expression - /(\*).*(\*)/
Now he is looking for the first and last occurrences * and deletes everything between them
And he does not care what else is there a bunch * in the piece that he demolished (
Well, it remains //
Cant on the jamb, help the crooked hand :)

Answer 1

stackoverflow.com/questions/643113/regex-to-strip-...

Answer 2

greed of quantifiers - dig here