code: def remove_comments(code):
      
  
      pattern = r"(\".*?\"|\'.*?\')|(/\*.*?\*/|//[^\r\n]*\n)"
      # first group captures quoted strings (double or single)
      # second group captures comments (//single-line or /* multi-line */)
      regex = re.compile(pattern, re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL)
  
      def do_replace(match):
          # if the 2nd group (capturing comments) is not None,
          # it means we have captured a non-quoted (real) comment string.
          if match.group(2) is not None:
              return ""  # so we will return empty to remove the comment
          else:  # otherwise, we will return the 1st group
              return match.group(1)  # captured quoted-string
  
      return regex.sub(do_replace, code)
docs: Remove C-style comment from GLSL code string.