Program Dream•13mo ago

LexaCount

I'm currently writing LexaCount, a project to count lines of code which will exclude lines newlines, blank lines and lines with comments in C. It is meant to be a small side project I'll use myself regularly as I need a good way to count the source lines of code of my ongoing projects.

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anic17OP•13mo ago

I hope it can release this in the coming days as it's already halfway done. It is based on an old utility I made back in 2021 which counted lines of code but didn't exclude comments or blank lines, and was made solely for Newtrodit. This utility will target any project made in the major languages (C, JavaScript, Rust, Python, Java, Zig, PHP, etc.) Still thinking about how I'll implement multiline comments for C, C++, CSS and HTML I will be adding the option of not counting lines that are only brackets or parenthesis, so:

if(condition)
{
  printf("hello");
  // this is a comment
}

if(condition)
{
  printf("hello");
  // this is a comment
}

will return 2 lines Alright, line counting seems to work now Gonna try to implement this Added an optional table display

Dumb Bird•13mo ago

I think that for the sake of expandability you should almost have a file for the language specifing syntax so you don't have to hard code them into the program in a nasty way some like:

.zig  # file ext
comment //, ///, //!
blocks  # maybe something like this tells us the language uses scopes like {}

.zig  # file ext
comment //, ///, //!
blocks  # maybe something like this tells us the language uses scopes like {}

or for Python:

.py
comment #
indents

.py
comment #
indents

Though the blocks and indents part could be dropped seeing as you don't really care for them anyway This is just an idea but I think it would be better then having, well I don't know a header with a bunch of macros for example

anic17OP•12mo ago

I like this idea I should do that with a structure containing language, extension, single line comment, multiline comment begin/end, brackets Found a bug in the table padding regarding lists Fixed Not in the way I like because it decreases performance, but it works at least Multiple lists are separated by a horitzontal line

anic17OP•12mo ago

Dumb Bird•12mo ago

Ooo, nice I think that the CWD can be shortened to just . instead of having the realpath show It's a bit long so smaller terminal sizes will have some issues So in this case because you're in C:\Users\Andreu\Desktop The paths would be like .\newtrodit\ etc instead of C:\Users\Andreu\Desktop\newtrodit You may also make it an option for uses realpaths for example --realpath

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