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Deleting commented-out code [message #256864]

Wed, 21 May 2008 09:59

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Originally posted by: ns_dkerber.ns_WarrenRogersAssociates.com

Does eclipse have a built-in function I can use to mass-delete
commented-out code, without removing programmer comments?

It seems like this should be doable in a couple of ways, but I don't
have the time to work on it myself, at least not right now...

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Re: Deleting commented-out code [message #256892 is a reply to message #256864]

Wed, 21 May 2008 11:19

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Originally posted by: codeslave.ca.ibm.com

You could use find+replace (CTRL-F or CTRL-H) to search thru files and
make regexp-based matches, then replace them with "".

Or you could pipe the file thru perl and do line replacements that way...

cat somefile.foo | perl -pe "s#//.+##g" > somefile.foo.out; mv -f
somefile.foo.out somefile.foo

Nick

ns_dkerber@ns_WarrenRogersAssociates.com wrote:
> Does eclipse have a built-in function I can use to mass-delete
> commented-out code, without removing programmer comments?
>
> It seems like this should be doable in a couple of ways, but I don't
> have the time to work on it myself, at least not right now...
>

Re: Deleting commented-out code [message #256945 is a reply to message #256892]

Wed, 21 May 2008 16:08

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: ns_dkerber.ns_WarrenRogersAssociates.com

In article <g11eif$6el$1@build.eclipse.org>, codeslave@ca.ibm.com
says...
> You could use find+replace (CTRL-F or CTRL-H) to search thru files and
> make regexp-based matches, then replace them with "".
>
> Or you could pipe the file thru perl and do line replacements that way...
>
> cat somefile.foo | perl -pe "s#//.+##g" > somefile.foo.out; mv -f
> somefile.foo.out somefile.foo

It seems like either one of those would leave blank lines in place of
commented lines, but it's a start...

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Re: Deleting commented-out code [message #256947 is a reply to message #256945]

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:02

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Originally posted by: codeslave.ca.ibm.com

> It seems like either one of those would leave blank lines in place of
> commented lines, but it's a start...

Then use something like ESC-CTRL-F for formatting the whole document
according to template. Here's the one I use:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/EMF/Setting_up_a_development_environ ment#Configuring_Code_Templates.2C_Code_Formatter.2C_and_Imp ort_Order

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Re: Deleting commented-out code [message #256967 is a reply to message #256864]

Thu, 22 May 2008 02:49

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: none.domain.invalid

ns_dkerber@ns_WarrenRogersAssociates.com a écrit :
> Does eclipse have a built-in function I can use to mass-delete
> commented-out code, without removing programmer comments?
>
> It seems like this should be doable in a couple of ways, but I don't
> have the time to work on it myself, at least not right now...

Search for regexp: \R(//[^\n\r]*\R)+
Replace with regexp : \R

This way all lines begining with "//" are removed

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