C++ Refacotring/Seperating app?

[dudMaN]

Hey all.

I recently made an entire library coding like this:

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class foo {
 public:
  void bar() {
   // ...
  // ...
 }
};

and now, i'm trying to release only .h and .a/.lib files, and i realise i cant do it with my current coding style, as i'd need .h and .cpp files to do it

Is there an app that can seperate that kind of code into:

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class foo {
 public:
  void bar();
};

and

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void foo::bar() {
 // ...
 // ...
}

Thanks!!

-dudMan

[BlindSide]

Eww, get rid of those java-style brackets.

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class foo 
{
public:
    void bar() 
    {
        // ...
        // ...
    }
}; 

Much better...

[JP]

hehe brackets are fun huh? Personally i prefer the 'java style' ones (though i was taught java first so maybe that's why, but i wouldn't say it's java style, just a personal style choice) so i end up converting all other people's code i come across into that style when i use it

I wouldn't have thought there's any program to do this, but it's a really simple task so you should be able to manage it yourself as you know exactly what you need to do right?

I suppose if you've got like 50 source files it might be a bit tedious, but that's why you should have planned ahead and realised you'd need to do this right from the start

[rogerborg]

This might be an idea opportunity to learn a language that's good at text processing, like Perl or Python.

[dudMaN]

JP & BlindSide: java brackets ftw, and i was taught java first too

rogerborg: ok, i'll work on learning python =)

and i'll refactor it myself ok, most of the source files are only <100 lines so it shouldnt be a problem, but theres this one really big one thatll take all year

ty everyone

-dudMan

[Saturn]

rogerborg: ok, i'll work on learning python =)

Perl or ruby are much better for that than python. Just as a note.

[CuteAlien]

I recommend using a lex/yacc combination, because I fear to make a tool that will work in all cases you will need to write a c++ parser. Doing it by hand is most likely faster.

[Saturn]

lex/yacc is serious overkill. You can catch all cases, when you preformat your code consistently, e.g using greatcode.
This way you can make parsing the code way easier.

Maybe you are faster when doing it with hand. But when you learn a scripting language like perl/ruby now and even when you need a bit longer this time, you will save a huge amount of time later in your career with being able to use scripting languages for simple code generation/manipulation tasks. Getting used to it early is not a disadvantage.