Re: [Help-source-highlight] regexp in javascript.lang (3rd try!)

[Lorenzo Bettini]

address@hidden wrote:
> Last time I suggested an ugly regexp definition for
> javascript.lang to avoid matching /* */ comments:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-source-highlight/2008-09/msg00000.html 
>
>
> On second thought (or third thought) I don't like this because it
> matches cases where there are two division operators in a single
> expression, such as:
>
> document.write('<table><tr><td>25% = '+(25/100)+'</td></tr></table>');

mh... I'm not sure I understad: why does this happen?  The other / are 
in strings delimited by '', aren't they?

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