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Regex for stripping comments in a file
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| # Match all comments | |
| \n?\s*\/\/\s.* | |
| # \n? optional-linebreak for matching comments on their own line | |
| # \s* matches any number of spaces preceeding // | |
| # \/\/ matches // | |
| # \s matches a single space after //. Lack of a space may indicate non-comment usage of // | |
| # .* matches the content of the comment until the end of the current line |
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