Yes, the greediness of [^"'/]+ was definitely the problem... The new regular expression to strip of C-Style comments from a JavaScript file is:

$strOutput =~ s{                 # First, we'll list things we want 
                                    # to match, but not throw away
    (
        # Match a regular expression (they start with ( or =).
        # Then the have a slash, and end with a slash.
        # The first slash must not be followed by * and cannot contain
        # newline chars. eg: var "re = /\*/;" or "a = b.match (/x/);"
        (?:

            [\(=] \s*
            /
            (?:
                # char class contents
                \[ \^? ]? (?: [^]\\]+ | \\. )* ]

                |
                # escaped and regular chars (\/ and \.)
                (?: [^[\\\/]+ | \\. )*
            )*
            /[gi]*

        ) 

        | # or double quoted string
        (?: 
            "[^"\\]* (?:\\.[^"\\]*)*" [^"'/]*
        )+  

        | # or single quoted constant
        (?: 
            '[^'\\]* (?:\\.[^'\\]*)*' [^"'/]*
        )+  
    )

    |
    
    # or we'll match a comment. Since it's not in the
    # $1 parentheses above, the comments will disappear
    # when we use $1 as the replacement text.

    /                           # (all comments start with a slash)
    (?:    
        # traditional C comments
        (?: 
            \* [^*]* \*+ 
            (?: [^/*] [^*]* \*+ )* 
            / 
        )

        | # or C++ //-style comments
        (?: 
            / [^\n]*
        )
    )
        
}{$1}gsx;
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I'll do some further testing, but it looks like this huge regex will do the trick! Thanks and ++ to you chipmunk.

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