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From: eversole@acae037.cadence.com (Richard Eversole; x6239)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: RE: Re: WANTED: "C" code line counter program
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.152134.15903@cadence.com>
Date: 12 Mar 91 15:21:34 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.214157.18633@ntpal.uucp> <9082@suns6.crosfield.co.uk> <MITCH.91Mar11175953@hq.af.mil>
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In article <MITCH.91Mar11175953@hq.af.mil>, mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitch Wright) writes:
|> >     I need a "C" code line counter program, preferably written in
|> >"C".  It will be used on several platforms, so solutions involving

|> Ray> So how about one that counts semi-colons :-)
|> 
|> Because:
|> 
|> #include <stdio.h>
|> main()
|> {
|>   printf(";;;; Hello World ;;;;\n");
|> }

But that is still only 1 semi-colon. It is very simple code to ignore
	quoted strings !!!!

Someone who knows YACC & LEX can write that in only a few lines. Take 
maybe an hour to do. (Of course counting only semi-colons not in
quoted strings using only C code would take not much more than the
same hour to code.)

Counting semi-colons is a trivial programming task.
  
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