On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 05:49:25 UTC, tcak wrote:
I checked for a flag in this page
http://dlang.org/dmd-linux.html , but couldn't have found any
for this purpose.
Is there a way to parse a d source file so it generates a tree
in JSON, XML, or something-that-can-be-processed-easily file
format?
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My real purpose:
I need to generate hash code (e.g. MD5) for a part of source
code (let's say a class, struct, or a function). So whether the
codes are changed or not can be detected. As you will guess,
comments, text formatting etc. shouldn't affect the hash result.
Use-Case:
I am writing a code generator/back up system. It will check the
last available code file. If important changes are done in a
specific part of code, it will increase version number by 1.
You could write your own tool using libdparse[1]: parse, visit
the AST, create a signature for the declarations that are
interesting.
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https://github.com/Hackerpilot/libdparse
