PHP Regular Expressions – Remove Comments From SQL Text benjf.com.blog@benjf.com, 2013-03-01 This short block of PHP code takes a SQL script and removes the “dash-dash” and “/**/” comments from it. Of course, many languages, including PHP itself, use the “/**/” comment style so this could apply to PHP scripts, as well. The line that removes the dash-dash style comments could easily be changed to the “//” (slash-slash) style. Notice the use of percent-signs as delimiters to eliminate the need of escaping forward-slashes. [code] // Remove the / * * / style comments $subject = preg_replace(‘%(/\*)(.*?)(\*/)%s’,””,$subject); // Remove the — style comments $subject = preg_replace(‘%(–).*%’,””,$subject); [/code] PHP Programming eliminate comments from sqlphppreg_replaceregular expressions