diff --git a/app/src/processing/app/preproc/PdePreprocessor.java b/app/src/processing/app/preproc/PdePreprocessor.java
index 0f58c0649..e6af0e8df 100644
--- a/app/src/processing/app/preproc/PdePreprocessor.java
+++ b/app/src/processing/app/preproc/PdePreprocessor.java
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ public class PdePreprocessor {
     // an OutOfMemoryError or NullPointerException will happen.
     // again, not gonna bother tracking this down, but here's a hack.
     // http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=16
-    scrubComments(program);
+    program = scrubComments(program);
     // If there are errors, an exception is thrown and this fxn exits.
 
     if (Preferences.getBoolean("preproc.substitute_unicode")) {
@@ -242,14 +242,17 @@ public class PdePreprocessor {
    */
   public String strip(String in) {
     // XXX: doesn't properly handle special single-quoted characters
+    List<Pattern> patterns = new ArrayList<Pattern>();
     // single-quoted character
-    Pattern[] patterns = new Pattern[6];
-    patterns[5] = Pattern.compile("(\"(?:[^\"\\\\]|\\\\.)*\")", Pattern.MULTILINE);
-    patterns[4] = Pattern.compile("(^\\s*#.*?$)", Pattern.MULTILINE);
-    patterns[3] = Pattern.compile("(/\\*[^*]*(?:\\*(?!/)[^*]*)*\\*/)", Pattern.MULTILINE);
-    patterns[2] = Pattern.compile("(//.*?$)", Pattern.MULTILINE);
-    patterns[1] = Pattern.compile("('\\\\\"')", Pattern.MULTILINE);
-    patterns[0] = Pattern.compile("('.')", Pattern.MULTILINE);
+    patterns.add(Pattern.compile("('.')", Pattern.MULTILINE));
+    // single and multi-line comment
+    patterns.add(Pattern.compile("('\\\\\"')", Pattern.MULTILINE));
+    patterns.add(Pattern.compile("(//.*?$)", Pattern.MULTILINE));
+    patterns.add(Pattern.compile("(/\\*[^*]*(?:\\*(?!/)[^*]*)*\\*/)", Pattern.MULTILINE));
+    // pre-processor directive
+    patterns.add(Pattern.compile("(^\\s*#.*?$)", Pattern.MULTILINE));
+    // double-quoted string
+    patterns.add(Pattern.compile("(\"(?:[^\"\\\\]|\\\\.)*\")", Pattern.MULTILINE));
 
     String code = in;
     for (Pattern p : patterns) {
@@ -259,7 +262,7 @@ public class PdePreprocessor {
 
     return code;
   }
-  
+
   /**
    * Removes the contents of all top-level curly brace pairs {}.
    * @param in the String to collapse
diff --git a/app/test/processing/app/preproc/IncludeBetweenMultilineComment.ino b/app/test/processing/app/preproc/IncludeBetweenMultilineComment.ino
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1c22729a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/test/processing/app/preproc/IncludeBetweenMultilineComment.ino
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#include <CapacitiveSensorDue.h>
+/*
+#include <WiFi.h>
+*/
+CapacitiveSensorDue cs_13_8 = CapacitiveSensorDue(13,8);
+void setup()
+{
+	Serial.begin(9600);
+}
+void loop()
+{
+	long total1 = cs_13_8.read(30);
+	Serial.println(total1);
+	delay(100);
+}
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diff --git a/app/test/processing/app/preproc/PdePreprocessorTest.java b/app/test/processing/app/preproc/PdePreprocessorTest.java
index 446f96209..aad17e744 100644
--- a/app/test/processing/app/preproc/PdePreprocessorTest.java
+++ b/app/test/processing/app/preproc/PdePreprocessorTest.java
@@ -18,4 +18,14 @@ public class PdePreprocessorTest {
 
     assertEquals(actualOutput, expectedOutput);
   }
-}
+
+  @Test
+  public void testIncludeInsideMultilineComment() throws Exception {
+    String s = FileUtils.readFileToString(new File(PdePreprocessorTest.class.getResource("IncludeBetweenMultilineComment.ino").getFile()));
+
+    PdePreprocessor pdePreprocessor = new PdePreprocessor();
+    pdePreprocessor.writePrefix(s);
+    assertEquals(1, pdePreprocessor.getExtraImports().size());
+    assertEquals("CapacitiveSensorDue.h", pdePreprocessor.getExtraImports().get(0));
+  }
+}
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