IMHO the basic problem with your sql files is that don't look really like sql files, thus anything can be a comment and anything can be wrong, even if perl is acting fine.

I don't know all databases in the whole world so don't take this advice as immutable, of course, but sql sentences normally aren't complete (and don't run) until you find a semicolon. Is also surprising that you could select a field named '--foo' when you can't even create a table like this:

create table (--foo int);  # error
create table ('--foo' int);  # error
create table ("--foo" int);  # error
create table (\-\-foo int); # big error

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So you are probably trying to solve a nonexistent problem. Comments are always after a semicolon or in your own line. And it you have i.e this:

-- ; select * from mytable where foo = "--34"; -- hi ', hi'. "hi'

The complete line IS a comment here. I'm quoting lines that I don't want to run (temporally) all the time in sql files, it's not unusual to see something like this.

So you should be pointing your arrows to ";" instead to "'". You probably should check and sanitize first what's in your files, before to pass this files to perl

In reply to Re^2: Regex: Identifying comments by pvaldes
in thread Regex: Identifying comments by zuma53

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