regex for C comments (Found a loophole?)

[Greg Onufer]

kearns at read.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns) writes:

>A previous article claimed that 
>>| ----------------------------------------
>>| "/*""/"*([^*/]|[^*]"/"|"*"[^/])*"*"*"*/"
>>| ----------------------------------------

I believe that 

"/*""/"*([^*/]|[^*]"/"|"/*"|"*"[^/])*"*"*"*/"
                       +++++
will work better.

Try   "/* * /* */"  with the previous regex...
I could not claim to know whether or not it is a legal comment, but
the previous regex DOES pass "/* /* */".

Cheers!greg