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Subject: Re: WANTED: "C" code line counter program
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Date: 20 Mar 91 16:10:04 GMT
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In article <4816@berry19.UUCP>, crocker@motcid.UUCP (Ronald T. Crocker) writes:
> Ok, so back to the question at hand: does anyone have a C program that
> counts C lines of code.  I have a sed(1) script that will do it (I'll
> post it if anyone is interested), but that isn't what is wanted.  The
> following lex program "almost" works (It doesn't handle quoted strings
> quite correctly, and it counts lines that consist of only comments as
> lines of code...; it is an exercise for the reader to modify the
> program ;-> )

There's a set of tools filed under 'metrics' under the comp.sources.unix 
archive on gatekeeper.dec.com.  Included is a tool called kdsi for counting
C LOC.  There's also a stripcom tool that strips comments out of C programs.
I don't know what volume of the archive it's under, sorry.  All of this
stuff is available via anonymous ftp to gatekeeper or any other of the
comp.sources.unix archive sites.

hal.