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From: kazua-u@ascii.JUNET (Kazuaki Ueno)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C source lines in file
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Date: 14 Aug 89 12:15:41 GMT
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In-reply-to: swonk@ccicpg.UUCP's message of 11 Aug 89 01:54:46 JST

In article <35120@ccicpg.UUCP> swonk@ccicpg.UUCP (Glen Swonk) writes:

 |Does anyone have a program or a method of determing
 |the number of C source lines in a source file?
 |My assumption is that comments don't count as source
 |lines unless the comment is on a line with code.
 |
	How about trying this:

grep -v '^#[ 	]*include' <filename>  | /lib/cpp -P | grep -v '^[ 	]*$' | wc -l 
( Inside []'s are a SPACE and a TAB. )

	You will get the number of 'effective' C source lines with this list of 
	commands.  Of course I do not care what you do with it. :-)
	
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Kazuaki Uyeno	ASCII Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
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