- From: Earl Hood <ehood@hydra.acs.uci.edu>
- Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 00:30:18 -0700
- To: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org
On August 2, 1999 at 23:35, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
> > If the data is passed in as a single string, a comment
> > stripping regex:
> >
> > s/<!--([^-]|-[^-])*--\s*>//go;
> >
> > Could first be applied before checking for a doctype declaration.
>
> Thanks for the regex; I added it in the doctype-checking
> function. Unfortunately this still won't handle multi-line
> comments, so I need to figure out what to do about those.
As pointed out later in discussion, the regex above is not
completely accurate. Use:
s/<!(?:--(?:[^-]|-[^-])*--\s*)+>//go;
The first one I gave does not handle multiple "-- --" occurances.
As for multi-line use, you could do a join on the passed in
array to get a single string, and then have a go at it.
Even better, when you get the document data, keep it in
a scalar instead of an array. Only do a split on the scalar
to get the individual lines for error reporting.
--ewh
Received on Tuesday, 3 August 1999 03:30:28 UTC