Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments?

Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> writes:

On 21/03/2024 19:23, Keith Thompson wrote:

Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> writes:
[...]

And sometimes, when it's not a really a comment, but rather a block of
code I don't want right now:
>
#ifdef 0
...
#endif

I think you mean "#if 0".

>
Yes I did :)
>

I use that sometimes, but one disadvantage is that if you're viewing
the
middle of a very large block of code, it can be hard to tell that it's
been "commented" out.
I have a script that applies "#if 0" and "#endif" to a block of code
*and* prepends "* " to each line in the block.

>
That's a good ideo.  Can you share it?

Sure.  It's a Perl script called "if0".  It tries to deal with
variations in line endings (I sometimes work with code with LF and/or
CRLF line endings) and with tabs vs. spaces as indentation.

I don't have a script that undoes what if0 does.  I might write one
one of these days, but usually I can just revert the change in source
control or change it back manually.

Complaints about Perl being write-only will be cheerfully ignored.

```
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my @lines = <>;
my $newline = "\n";
if (defined $lines[0] and $lines[0] =~ /\r$/) {
    $newline = "\r\n";
}

print "#if 0$newline";
foreach my $line (@lines) {
    if ($line =~ /^ /) {
        $line =~ s/ /*/;
    }
    elsif ($line =~ /^\r?$/) {
        $line =~ s/^/*/;
    }
    else {
        $line =~ s/^/* /;
    }
    print $line;
}
print "#endif /* 0 */$newline";
```

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