How to comment multiple lines when a regexpression uses */?

JavaScript
1

I want to comment out multiple lines, but when I use /* */ it conflicts because of the */ use in a regular expression. Solution?

Example code:

/*
		
		let chewieQuote = "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrgh!";
		let chewieRegex = /Aa*/; 
		let resultQuote = chewieQuote.match(chewieRegex);
		console.log(resultQuote); // ["Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"]

*/
3

Appreciate it, Randell. Kinda crazy they don’t have an option to add more *s like

/**      
**/

to combat that. Cheers.

4

If you select several lines the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-K Ctrl-C will comment them all as an inline comment.

This can be undone with Ctrl-K Ctrl-U.

5

Thank you this helps a lot!

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6

In most text editors, you can toggle commenting/uncommenting by pressing Ctrl+/. I think the Ctrl+K shortcuts are Visual Studio–specific.

7

That may be - but they have been working for me in the default FCC environment all the past week since I joined, in a vanilla Chrome browser.

(P.S. - Don’t tell Bill).

8

Ooh, interesting. I guess it implements shortcuts from all over the place, then. :grin:

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