r - R gsub remove SQL comments from a character string

Question

In R, I have a character string w and would like to get rid of the SQL commented parts i.e. the characters between /* and */.

This is what I have tried so far, but it doesn't quite work....

 w <- "ldsjflsdj /* hhhhhhhhsdlfjlsj */ dskfhjsdkjfhsd"
 gsub("[/**/]","",w)

The ideal output would be something like:

`ldsjflsdj dskfhjsdkjfhsd`

How do I achieve this?

I am pretty sure it's simple I'm just not an expert in regex

Thanks,

HLM

Answer 1

qdapパッケージのgenX:

library(qdap)
genX(w, "/\\*", "/\\*")

## [1] "ldsjflsdj dskfhjsdkjfhsd"