Count lines of code
Count lines of code
- Subject: Count lines of code
- From: "Brant Sears" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:51:28 -0800
- Thread-topic: Count lines of code
Title: Count lines of code
Hi. I'm trying to create a system in xCode that will allow me to keep track of lines of code created/modified/deleted on a regular basis.
One of the tasks is going to be to find a way to count lines of code. I have seen several people suggest the use of wc -l. However, I want to count only non-blank, non-comment lines as actual lines of code. A line of code with an embedded comment should count, however. Such as the following:
void myFunction(int myvariable /*a comment*/) <- should count
// a comment <- should not count
/* a multi <- should not count
line comment <- should not count
*/ <- should not count
Perhaps using grep with some regular _expression_ would be the right way to filter out comments and blank lines? Perhaps a perl script would be better?
The next step might involve using the diff utility to determine lines of code deleted, modified, and added.
Then, I'm thinking my tool would probably take that information, plus perhaps the date/time and append it to a file. I'm thinking this could be added as a script that could be invoked as part of my build on the build machine.
The purpose of this is that we want to be able to use this data to callibrate an estimation tool with data from our project. I think that the more automated this system is, the less bias our data will be and therefore we will have better data to calibrate the estimation tool with.
So the reason why I'm posting this is that I'd like to ask if there is already such a tool in extence that I can buy/use. Does anyone know of such a tool for OS X?
Thanks.
Brant Sears
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