Hi Chris,
Your solution is working nicely! I am working on porting it to sed so
I can just run a script. Thanks so much!
-Justin
On Oct 15, 4:04 pm, xulxer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> >Hi all,
>
> >I have this regexp that I wrote which will match on the specific C/C++
> >function I am looking for right up to the first open brace. What I
> >want to do is grab everything between the first open brace and the last
> >close brace for that function { }. Effectively I want my regexp to
> >grab a specific C function in it's entirety.
>
> >So far my regexp looks like this:
> >s/\s*\(.*\)\s*\*\(.*\)::recv\s*(\s*int\s*\*\s*\(.*\))\s*\n*\s*\(.*\)\s*\n*\s*{
> >and what it does is it grabs the beginning of any function that
> >matches: foo* bar::recv(int* foobar) {.
>
> >I want to take it all the way to the end of the function (could be up
> >to 50 or so lines) so that it matches on foo* bar::recv(int* foobar)
> >{ ... }. Is this at all possible? My ultimate goal is to find and
> >remove a certain function in many different files. Any
> >suggestions/advice is welcome.
>
> >Thanks, Justin
>
> as far as i know there is no clever way to count braces with regexp. So
> you would have to use the indent to identify the correct closing brace.
> Say your function is indentend by 4 spaces you could you:
>
> g/\s\{4\}foo.*bar::recv.*{/,/^\s\{4\}}/d
>
> With selects every code block indented by 4 spaces followed by foo*
> bar::recv * { until it hits a closing brace indented by 4 spaces. If you
> have to apply this change to many files i would suggest sed.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Chris
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