code: public static String stripComments(String multiLineSQL) {
          return SqlParser.parse(multiLineSQL, true, false).toString().trim();
      }
docs: Searches through a String which contains SQL code and strips out
  any comments that are between \/**\/ or anything that matches
  SP--SP<text>\n (to support the ANSI standard commenting of --
  at the end of a line).
  
  @return The String without the comments in