Well, you need to specify the quote behaviour as well. Hint: C# quote
handling would be different to Java handling. (In fact, that goes for
various other non-quote cases, given the way Java handles Unicode
escape sequences.)

How does your class handle code like this?

/* string s = "/* hello */ // how are you?"; */ string s = "/* // */";

I'm pretty sure it's impossible with a regular expression; you'd need a
true C# parser.

Eq.

Hello Jarlaxle,

I would love to take this challenge on the one hand, but am lackign time
and incentive to do so at this time.

There's a lot to keep in mind even when only considering C# as target language
for this exercise.

I say:

A that this can be done with regular expressions.
B that it will be bloody hard and unreadable
C that regex isn't the best tool for this job
D that if you mix up comment like code with string constants as in the provided
samples, you're either crazy or need total job security ;)

So for those that want to try:

A) Verbatim strings are a pain in the a.s for this as it removes the security
of the normal line ends.
B) You need to understand balancing groups to get this to work
C) And a lot of look ahead's/behinds
D) And greedy matching to solve performance issues

The best way is probably to make a regex that matches from the start to the
end and use a MatchEvaluator to null all the comments found... but that wouldn't
be a pure regex solution would it?

--
Jesse Houwing
jesse.houwing at sogeti.n