This shows use cases where a simple regex like the one on StackOverflow cannot be relied upon for 100% accuracy in detecting comments in code.
var foo = "There's no way to tell that this /* is not the beginning of a comment";
var bar = "There's no way to tell that this */ is not the end of a comment";
var baz = "There's no way to tell that this // is not a single line comment";
var buz = "Matters get much worse when there are escaped \" quotes /* inside the string. Definitely need a parser.";
var fiz = `And there is