Reputation: 7979

Find all commented line in visual studio 2012

My project is developed by many people. Many of the developers have commented few of their codes

I have a lot of codes like

        //ServiceResult serviceResult = null;
        //JavaScriptSerializer serializer = null;
        //ErrorContract errorResponse = null;

They use // ,they don't use /**/ How can I find all such commented line in visual studio 2012 using regular expression

In that find it should not find any xml comments with ///

Upvotes: 4

Answers (6)

Reputation: 21437

Simply try as

(?<!/)//.*(?!/)

(?<!/) Negative Lookbehind - To check the // doesn't contains / as a preceding character
//.* Matches any character including // except newline
(?!/) Negative Lookahead - To check the // doesn't contains / as a next character

Upvotes: 3

Reputation: 3176

This should cover most spacing cases and work in all VS versions. I believe look-behinds are only supported in VS2013.

^(?:\s|\t)*?//(?!/\s*<).+$

Upvotes: 1

Reputation: 11233

Try this regex:

^\s*(?<!/)(//(?!/).+)$

First group should give you the commented line.

Upvotes: 1

Reputation: 8163

Try this expression (?<!\/)\/\/[^\/].*

and for .NET as someone mentioned: (?<!/)//[^/].*

Upvotes: 1

Reputation: 1101

use this patten

(?<!/)//(?!/)

(?<!/) means it can not be / before //

(?!/) means it can not be / after //

Upvotes: 2

Reputation: 1301

The expression should be like this:

//.*

Upvotes: -3