Hey guys,

Alright so I'm trying to create a regular expression for finding comments and (" (wildcard) ") strings inside a javascript file. But I guess doing it this way is a little different than you would normally do it.Here is my javascript file (apart from the array of words it's pretty small) http://cplusdev.com/js/highlighter.js - Anyway as you can see I have an array of what I want to find and what I want to replace it with: 

 

window.onload = function () 

{

var codeBox = document.getElementsByClassName("code");

var find = [ '\\b' + "bool" + '\\b',

'\\b' + "break" + '\\b',

'\\b' + "case" + '\\b'];

var desc = [ "\<font color=\"0077FF\"\>bool\</font\>",

"\<font color=\"0077FF\"\>break\</font\>",

"\<font color=\"0077FF\"\>case\</font\>"];

for( var i = 0; i < codeBox.length; i++ )

{

wordhighlight(codeBox[i], find, desc);

}

};

document.getElementsByClassName("code"); finds all my css divs i created called "code" so I'm only searching inside the code boxes.

function wordhighlight(aSourceObject, sWords, sDescrip)

{

var sText = aSourceObject.innerHTML;

for( var i = 0; i < sWords.length; i++ )

{

sText = sText.replace( new RegExp(sWords[i], "g"), sDescrip[i]); 

}

aSourceObject.innerHTML = sText;

};

Now this function here works quite well for now as it finds all the keywords I need and replaces them. But obviously I can't figure out how to search for comments/strings and replace them with the color green/red in my javascript. So with the help of a regular expression. Does anyone know how I can search the out and replace them in this particular problem? I Tried " /\*[\d\D]*?\*/ " for searching for comments but no luck on getting it working and replacing the original text.

Thanks a heap,

Myth.