I'm comparing two different files, and am using these line filters:
^'
- Ignore lines which start with a '
character^[ |\t]*//
- Ignore lines which start zero or more spaces or tabs, proceeded by //
[\/\/]+.*
- Ignore lines with //
proceeded by any number of characters, with the only restriction being line breaks.However, the ignore behavior seems to be inconsistent:
Why is that first case statement ignored but the second one is not?
I'm guessing it has something to do with the /
in the string being assigned, but my third line filter explicitly looks for 2 //
so that shouldn't be the problem...
[\/\/]+.*
matches a / to the end of the line. [] is "anything in this group", and you are just listing the / character twice. So it does not need a second / to make a match. It is equivalent to \/.*
(\/\/)+.*
would match // to end of line (.* makes + redundant). But that is probably what you wanted. (the (), not the redundancy) It is equivalent to \/\/.*