>Anyone out there know of a decent code counter that works well with foxpro. It needs to differentiate code from remarks and in-line comments as a minimum. Thanks!
The general consensus is that this is not worthwhile. There are just to many arbitrary decisions that have to be made. For instance, you mention ignoring (?) comments. But the comments (and blank spaces) cost you work, and improve the quality of your program. So I decided to just include them, in my own code counter. Of course, it is relatively easy to parse the program file, to ignore lines that start with "*" or "NOTE".
Another question is, how to deal with forms, reports, menus, etc.
Anyway, if you are interested in my primitive prototype, see
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704650. I decided to post this as download, but the program simply needs to many improvements yet.
To ignore or otherwise segregate comments, you could use alines() to convert the program into an array (with the optimistic assumption that none of your programs has more than 65,000 lines of code), and then parse the individual lines.
HTH,
Hilmar.
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