Trouble with tribbles, i mean regular expressions

Hi all
im trying to make a regular expression that finds all the comments in a given string
stuff like this
/* this is my comment */
then what i want to do is to remove all those found comments from the string and leave me with the original string without any comments.
anyway i know i need a pattern but i cant get my pattern right, this is what i have at the moment
Pattern remComment = Pattern.compile(" ^\\*?[\\w\\s\\W]+?*\\ ", Pattern.DOTALL | Pattern.MULTILINE);
can anyone help me and let me know where im going wrong
im basically trying to say any thing that starts with \* <any other text here> until a *\
thanks

There is something else wrong, I just tryied:
* Comments.java
* version 1.0
* 07/06/2005
package samples;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
* @author notivago
public class Comments {
     * @param args
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String comment =
            "/*\r\n" +
            "does this do it won\r\n" +
            "*/\r\n" +
            ".activegrouptab\r\n" +
            "{\r\n" +
            "white-space:nowrap;\r\n" +
            "border-top-width:1pt;\r\n" +
            "cursor:hand;\r\n" +
            "}\r\n" +
            "/*\r\n" +
            "does this do it too\r\n" +
            "*/\r\n" +
            ".activegrouptabdisabled\r\n" +
            "{\r\n" +
            "font-family:verdana;\r\n" +
            "font-size:7pt;\r\n" +
            "}\r\n" +
            "/*\r\n" +
            "does this do it free\r\n" +
            "*/\r\n" +
            ".activesectiontab\r\n" +
            "{\r\n" +
            "width:90%;\r\n" +
            "background-image:url(hocbt.gif);\r\n" +
            "overflow:auto;\r\n" +
            "color:#ffffff;\r\n" +
        Pattern remComment = Pattern.compile("/\\*.*?\\*/", Pattern.DOTALL | Pattern.MULTILINE);
        Matcher matcher = remComment.matcher(comment);
        while( matcher.find() ) {
            System.out.println( "The comment: \n" + matcher.group() );
            System.out.println("----");
}with the output:
The comment:
does this do it won
The comment:
does this do it too
The comment:
does this do it free
----

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              String result = matcher.group();
             if(!result.equalsIgnoreCase(" "))
                         System.out.println("result:"+result);
     when i compile this code i am getting the expected result...ie
result:java j2ee
result:java j2ee
result: and
result: and
result: and
result: and
result: and
result: and
result:c#
but when i replace String patternStr = "\"java j2ee\" and \"c#\""; with
String patternStr = "\"java j2ee\" and \"c++\""; i am just getting c in the result instead of c++ ie i am getting result :
result:java j2ee
result:java j2ee
result: and
result: and
result: and
result: and
result: and
result: and
result:C
result:c
result:c
result:c
result:c
result:c
result:c
In the last lines i should get result:c++ instead of result: c
Any ideas please
Thanks

In the last lines i should get result:c++ instead of result: cThe regular expression parser considers the plus sign '+' a special
character; it means: one or more times the previous regular expression.
So 'c++' means one or more 'c's on or more times. Obviously you don't
want that, you want a literal '+' plus sign. You can do that by prepending
the '+' with a backslash '\'. Unfortunately, the javac compiler considers
a backslash a special character and therefore you have to 'escape'
the backslash also, by adding another backslash. The result looks
like this:"c\\+\\+"kind regards,
Jos

Rplacing space with &nbsb; in html using regular expressions

Hi
I want to replace space with &nbsb; in HTML.
I used the below method to replace space in my html file.
var spacePattern11:RegExp =/(\s)/g;
str= str.replace(spacePattern," "
Here str varaible contains below html file.In this html file i want to replace space present between " What number does this represents" with &nbsb;
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"> What number does this Roman numeral represents MDCCCXVIII ?</TEXTFORMAT>
</body>
</html>
But by using the above regular expression i am getting like this.
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head><body>
<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"> What number does this represents</TEXTFORMAT>
</body>
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Here what happening means it was replacing space with &nbsb; in HTML tags also.But want to replace space with &nbsb; present in the outside of the HTML tags.I want like this using regular expressions in FLEX
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>What number does this represents</body>
</html>
Hi,Please give me the solution to slove the above problem using regular expressions
Thanks in Advance to all
Regards
ssssssss

sorry i missed some information in above,The modified information was in red color
Hi
I want to replace space with &nbsb; in HTML.
I used the below method to replace space in my html file.
var spacePattern11:RegExp =/(\s)/g;
str= str.replace(spacePattern," "
Here str varaible contains below html file.In this html file i want to replace space present between " What number does this represents" with &nbsb;
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"> What number does this Roman numeral represents MDCCCXVIII ?</TEXTFORMAT>
</body>
</html>
But by using the above regular expression i am getting like this.
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head><body>
<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADIN G="2"> What number does this represents</TEXTFORMAT>
</body>
</html>
Here what happening means it was replacing space with &nbsb; in HTML tags also.But want to replace space with &nbsb; present in the outside of the HTML tags.I want like this using regular expressions in FLEX
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>What&nbsb;number&nbsb;does&nbsb;this&nbsb;represents</body>
</html>
Hi,Please give me the solution to slove the above problem using regular expressions
Thanks in Advance to all
Regards
ssssssss

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