Re^3: Removing XML comments with regex

You're right about the minimal match on .*?, but keep /s in there or it will miss multiline comments.

$xml =~ s/<!--.*?-->//sg;
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Re^4: Removing XML comments with regex by tuxz0r (Pilgrim) on Oct 24, 2007 at 19:41 UTC
Right on, `s/<!--.*?-->//gs` [download] is the proper way to go, since we don't want to be greedy and treat the beginning of the first comment until the end of the last comment as a giant comment itself.	[reply] [d/l]