PERL Beginners - Re: Find function definition in a C file for a function with its name and starting li

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Re: Find function definition in a C file for a function with its name and starting li

jeniffer

2006-03-24, 3:59 am

jeniffer wrote:

> I am writing a perl code to find out the location (line number) of
> ending bracket of a function given its name and start line number .Do i
> just scan character by character (from start line number ) and
> increment a counter when I encounter { decrement the counter by 1 on
> getting } ,and when the counter = 0 ,I take the line number .This would
> free me from parsing the code .Is this method correct? or can i do it
> in a better way by regular expression ? I need to have a fast approach
> since the code has finally to work on thousands of C files.

I figured out one thing ...{ and } falling within /* */ and after //
would have to be ignored

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