[DGD] parse_string regular_expression

[aishiteru at charter.net]

Hello everyone,

I am pulling my hair out trying to get a regular expression for single-line comments and
c-style comments to be matched with parse_string().  The regular expressions I have tried are below.

single-line comments:
//[^*\n]+/

c-style single-line and multi-line comments:
/\\/\*(.*?)\*\//
or
\/\*[^*]+(\*\/)?

Each of these gives me a malformed regular expression error.
What am I doing wrong?  These were all suggested over the DGD Intermud
channel.  I'm on a MUD using a modified Gurbalib mudlib.

Joseph