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    copied!<p>I've got some ugly HTML generated from Word, from which I want to strip all HTML comments.</p> <p>The HTML looks like this:</p> <pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt; &lt;o:OfficeDocumentSettings&gt; &lt;o:RelyOnVML/&gt; &lt;o:AllowPNG/&gt; &lt;/o:OfficeDocumentSettings&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt; &lt;w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;w:View&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt; &lt;w:Zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt; &lt;w:TrackMoves/&gt; &lt;w:TrackFormatting/&gt; &lt;w:HyphenationZone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt; &lt;w:PunctuationKerning/&gt; &lt;w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/&gt; &lt;w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt; &lt;w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt; &lt;w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt; &lt;w:DoNotPromoteQF/&gt; &lt;w:LidThemeOther&gt;NO-BOK&lt;/w:LidThemeOther&gt; &lt;w:LidThemeAsian&gt;X-NONE&lt;/w:LidThemeAsian&gt; &lt;w:LidThemeComplexScript&gt;X-NONE&lt;/w:LidThemeComplexScript&gt; &lt;w:Compatibility&gt; &lt;w:BreakWrappedTables/&gt; &lt;w:SnapToGridInCell/&gt; &lt;w:WrapTextWithPunct/&gt; &lt;w:UseAsianBreakRules/&gt; &lt;w:DontGrowAutofit/&gt; &lt;w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/&gt; &lt;w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/&gt; &lt;w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/&gt; &lt;w:OverrideTableStyleHps/&gt; &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt; &lt;m:mathPr&gt; &lt;m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/&gt; &lt;m:brkBin m:val="before"/&gt; &lt;m:brkBinSub m:val="&amp;#45;-"/&gt; &lt;m:smallFrac m:val="off"/&gt; &lt;m:dispDef/&gt; &lt;m:lMargin m:val="0"/&gt; &lt;m:rMargin m:val="0"/&gt; &lt;m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/&gt; &lt;m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/&gt; &lt;m:intLim m:val="subSup"/&gt; &lt;m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/&gt; &lt;/m:mathPr&gt;&lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt; </code></pre> <p>..and the regex I am using is this one</p> <pre><code>html = html.replace(/&lt;!--(.*?)--&gt;/gm, "") </code></pre> <p>But there seems to be no match, the string is unchanged.</p> <p>What I am missing?</p>
 

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