C/C++ Comment Extractor : Help!!
Hi Perl Gurus, I'm trying to Implement a comment extractor from C/C++ Source files. Before trying to re-invent the wheel., Is there such a tool already?! My basic purpose is to generate documentation out of the existing comments. If there isn't such a tool, can you give me some skeletal overview of how the code looks like., (Being a newbie... I'm poor in regexes., and I think (?) , this can be pretty easy with regexps). Thanks for your help. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: C/C++ Comment Extractor : Help!!
Heheheh... My company has actually just completed such a project for generating help docs from the C/C++ comments in our code which accompany our regular help docs. Hehheh... the funny part is that it took about a year to develop to conform to the various comments. Our clients can even use it to generated docs for any extensions they develop, (but that costs more money to have our API). Have fun developing it.. I don't know the schematics of how it works since I didn't work on the project. I just know it take about 4 hours to run on our entire source tree, parsing thousands of files with perl might sound more fun than it really is. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: C/C++ Comment Extractor : Help!! > > > Hi Perl Gurus, > I'm trying to Implement a comment extractor from > C/C++ Source > files. Before trying to re-invent the wheel., Is there such a tool > already?! My basic purpose is to generate documentation out of the > existing comments. > If there isn't such a tool, can you give me some skeletal > overview of how the code looks like., (Being a newbie... I'm poor in > regexes., and I think (?) , this can be pretty easy with regexps). > Thanks for your help. > > The views and opinions expressed in this email message are the sender's own, and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Summit Systems Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: C/C++ Comment Extractor : Help!!
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:18:49PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Perl Gurus, > I'm trying to Implement a comment extractor from C/C++ Source > files. > (Being a newbie... I'm poor in > regexes., and I think (?) , this can be pretty easy with regexps). Actually no, it's not easy. C++ comments (//...) are no problem since they end at EOL, but the others (/* ... */) are plain evil, especially with compiler flags for allowing nested comments. Look for Text::Balance, that should get you started. -- If we fail, we will lose the war. Michael Lamertz| +49 221 445420 / +49 171 6900 310 Nordstr. 49| [EMAIL PROTECTED] 50733 Cologne | http://www.lamertz.net Germany| http://www.perl-ronin.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: C/C++ Comment Extractor : Help!!
On May 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I'm trying to Implement a comment extractor from C/C++ Source >files. Before trying to re-invent the wheel., Is there such a tool >already?! My basic purpose is to generate documentation out of the >existing comments. > If there isn't such a tool, can you give me some skeletal >overview of how the code looks like., (Being a newbie... I'm poor in >regexes., and I think (?) , this can be pretty easy with regexps). >Thanks for your help. You should have checked the Perl FAQ. There is a solution in the documentation: perldoc -q comment Found in /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/pod/perlfaq6.pod How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a file? -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** what does y/// stand for? why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
