Re^2: need regex help to strip things like embedded C comments

[Eradicatore]

Thanks for the reply! Yes, I agree there are definitely going to be gradations of how well any solution works here. I dont' need anything perfect. But I'm also mainly wondering about my one specific question. How to get somethinig like character negation but have it be more like "pattern negation". In this case, the pattern I don't want to be inside the non-greedy regex is /* which is the opening to a new c comment.