I don't agree; however, as I said, use the code as you like.

My reasoning, why I don't agree: If it is convenient to split a command into several lines, then it should also count like several lines.

Take a typical SELECT statement, for instance:

select (field list);
  from (table list);
  order by ...;
  group by ...;
  [nofilter];
  ...

Counting that as a single command doesn't consider the complexity of a SQL command; it is nice to be able to do lots of things in a single command, but we have to think about each and every line:

What fields do I need to include?

How should the result be sorted?

Is the NOFILTER clause relevant in this case?

How should records be combined?

Each of these questions requires some thought from the programmer!

What I really meant by the inaccuracies I mentioned was that for a report, for instance, the scctext tool creates quite a few lines of "code" for every single report object.


Additional adjustments might be made for empty lines, and comments - at least, to count them separately. The ratio, lines with comments / total lines in the program, might give you a rough idea about the quality of the documentation.


Ultimately, any decision in this respect is arbitrary to some degree.


Regards,

Hilmar.

>Hilmar
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>I added one line of code to remove continuation lines and make it a little more accurate.
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>lnLineCount = occurs(chr(13), lcFileContents)
>lnLineCount = lnLineCount - occurs(chr(59), lcFileContents) && Subtract continuations (;)
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>>>Hilmar
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>>>Thanks. At least it gives me a ball park fiqure.
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>>Which, IIRC, is ridiculously high for some file types (for instance, for menus), and perhaps somewhat low for others. I was considering using some adjustment factors, based on the file type - but I didn't pursue the idea further.
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>>Feel free to use the code in any way that suits you. If you come up with some improvements, perhaps you, or I, can publish it eventually as a FAQ or download.

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