Code line counter

[Pierre-Paul Lavoie]

Yes of course. wc gives what I would call the most trivial LOC metric.
There are many third party programs that can give you different
metrics.

Personally I'd go with that instead of trying to implement my own.

ppl

On 11/28/06, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 28.11.06 07:49:33, Pierre-Paul Lavoie wrote:
> > On the command line, the word count program comes with every Linux. It
> > can also count lines with the -l option.
> >
> >     e.g.
> >         cd src/
> >         wc -l *.cpp *.hpp
>
> Which normally doesn't reflect the LOC at all, due to the large amount
> of documentation in good programs ;)
>
> But a simple parser that throws away C/C++ comments and preprocessor
> directives is easily implementable with flex/bison.
>
> Andreas
>
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