Considering that Regexp::Common defines a html comment match as being found via the following regex, it's probably best to stick with a module as such, so as to catch any nasty "unusual" cases of proper html comments. 

# not useful by itself, see update below
(?k:(?k:<!)(?k:(?:--(?k:[^-]*(?:-[^-]+)*)--\s*)*)(?k:>))

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update: I hadn't ever seen the (?k:) usage before, and thanks to benizi, I now see it is simply used internally withing Regexp::Common's collection of modules to allow for optional capturing of segments of the common regular expression being used. From the docs:

To specify such "optional" capturing parentheses within the regular expression associated with create, use the notation (?k:...). Any parentheses of this type will be converted to (...) when the -keep flag is specified, or (?:...) when it is not.

So unless I've stripped something out that I shouldn't of, the above example would really boil down to the following (non-capturing) regex, useful for stripping html comments: 

/<!--[^-]*-[^-]+*--\s**>/

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second update: Obviously this won't compile, as per fireartist below. My apologies, I was finishing that up with less than a minute of computer time left :)

In reply to Re: Comment Removal by saskaqueer
in thread Comment Removal by lisaw

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