SED: Matching on 2 patterns on the same line

Question

Hi I want to delete a line using sed if it matches 2 regular expressions in the same line. EG the line starts with /* and end with */ (comment). The following script will do m

Answer 1

this strips out multiline comments as well

eg

# cat file
blah blah /* comment */
words1
words2
/* multiline
   comments
/*
end

$ awk -vRS='*/'  '{ gsub(/\/\*.*/,""); }1' file
blah blah

words1
words2

you can add another filter to sed 's|\/\/.*||' to filter out // comments as well