$text   =~ s|/\*          # First slash and star /*
             (?:          # Non-backreferencing parentheses
                (?!\*/)   # not a star slash */
                .         # ok to inch along
             )*           # Zero or more
           \*/||sx;       # Followed by a star slash */

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This should work for you. See Death to Dot Star! for details. Be careful on this one. It's really tricky.

With all due respect to kilinrax, his (her?) regex can fail under some circumstances: 

my $text = 'foo /* bar **/ baz /* ack! ph! */';
$text =~ s|
              \/\*       # '/*', escaped
                [^\*]*   # 0 or more non-'*' characters
              \*\/       # '*/', escaped
          ||x;
print $text;

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This prints foo /* bar **/ baz. The extra asterisk at the end of the first C comment throws off the regex.

Cheers,
Ovid

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