Re: [PHP] need some regex help to strip out // comments but not http:// urls

2013-05-28 Thread Andreas Perstinger
On 28.05.2013 23:17, Daevid Vincent wrote: I'm adding some minification to our cache.class.php and am running into an edge case that is causing me grief. I want to remove all comments of the // variety, HOWEVER I don't want to remove URLs... You need a negative look behind assertion ( http://

Re: [PHP] need some regex help to strip out // comments but not http:// urls

2013-05-28 Thread David Harkness
Hi Daevid, On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote: > I appreciate the pointer, but our files, like many people, is a mixture of > HTML, PHP and JS in one file. This jsmin appears to only work on .js files > right? Also, everything else works great in our minifing method, just this

RE: [PHP] need some regex help to strip out // comments but not http:// urls

2013-05-28 Thread Daevid Vincent
> From: David Harkness [mailto:davi...@highgearmedia.com] > > We have been using a native jsmin extension [1] which does a lot more > without any trouble for over two years now. It's much faster than the > equivalent PHP solution and is probably tested by a lot more people than a > home-grown vers

Re: [PHP] need some regex help to strip out // comments but not http:// urls

2013-05-28 Thread David Harkness
Hi Daevid, On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote: > I'm adding some minification to our cache.class.php . . . We have been using a native jsmin extension [1] which does a lot more without any trouble for over two years now. It's much faster than the equivalent PHP solution and

[PHP] need some regex help to strip out // comments but not http:// urls

2013-05-28 Thread Daevid Vincent
I'm adding some minification to our cache.class.php and am running into an edge case that is causing me grief. I want to remove all comments of the // variety, HOWEVER I don't want to remove URLs... Given some example text here with carefully crafted cases: // another comment here http://foo.com