From: Brett Parker Sent: 03 February 2005 14:00 On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:39:21AM -0000, Keith Watson wrote:

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I have a stack of JavaScript files from which I want to

extract the function definition lines and the following comment block for documentation purposes,

...[lots deleted]...

I'd probably go the perl route, but that's because I can't write awk ;)

yeah, not my favourite scripting language either, but I know it has it's uses (he said hastily :o) )

If I get a chance later on tonight, I'll throw something out that should work.

gracias, amigo

I assume that the comments are always straight after the function definition?

yes

I'd have expected it to be /** at the top of the comment for Java, but I suppose as this is JavaScript I'm not surprised that it's not.

ditto, but that's the way whoever did it coded them. It's quite readable though, so I can see why it was done that way.

It should be relatively simple... parse the file for the function keyword at the beginning of a line, then select everything up to the first occurrence of */, should be relatively simple.

that's why I wondered if it could be done with a suitable cunning regular expression and egrep.

Any regex guru's fancy a crack at this? :o)

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