Regex to remove single-line SQL comments (--)

Question

Question:

Can anybody give me a working regex expression (C#/VB.NET) that can remove single line comments from a SQL statement ?

I mean these comments:

Answer 1

In PHP, i'm using this code to uncomment SQL (only single line):

$sqlComments = '@(([\'"`]).*?[^\\\]\2)|((?:\#|--).*?$)\s*|(?<=;)\s+@ms';
/* Commented version
$sqlComments = '@
    (([\'"`]).*?[^\\\]\2) # $1 : Skip single & double quoted + backticked expressions
    |((?:\#|--).*?$)      # $3 : Match single line comments
    \s*                   # Trim after comments
    |(?<=;)\s+            # Trim after semi-colon
    @msx';
*/
$uncommentedSQL = trim( preg_replace( $sqlComments, '$1', $sql ) );
preg_match_all( $sqlComments, $sql, $comments );
$extractedComments = array_filter( $comments[ 3 ] );
var_dump( $uncommentedSQL, $extractedComments );

To remove all comments see Regex to match MySQL comments