I read a file into an array using @file=<FILE>.
Problem is I have to parse the data in the file excluding C-Style comments.
They may be only one line long:
/* this is a comment /*
or multiple lines:
/*
these 3 lines are comments
*/
I'm currently using the following code to process the file:

open (FILE,"file");
@file=<FILE>;
close(FILE);
for ($i=0; $i<=$#file; $i++) {
 # Here I'm trying to catch the comments and ignore them
 if ($file[$i]=~/\/\*/) { # If comment is found ...
  while ($file[$i]!~/\*\//) { $i++; } # Check lines till finding end o
+f comment
  next;
 }
 ... processing data ...
}

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My problem is that /\/\*/ doesn't match "/*". (without quotes)
I have also tried /\/\042/ which doesn't match, too.
Does anyone have an idea to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance.

In reply to Matching C-Style comments by Anonymous Monk

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