Re: Pull comments from .VB files

[Craig Haiss <craighaiss -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

This probably isn't the answer you were hoping for, but in the event that such an application can't be found, you could always consider a Perl script. Perl is great for searching through and extracting text. I've written scripts before that recurse through directories and export text to a file, just as you describe, and I'd be willing to offer what advice I can.
 
Hopefully someone can suggest an application; there's no point in reinventing the wheel. But if you have to, Perl might be a solution.
 
Craig Haiss - http://techwritingtips.blogspot.com/ 


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From: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: nettechwriters List <nettechwriters -at- yahoogroups -dot- com>; "List, Techwriter" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 1:05:25 PM
Subject: Pull comments from .VB files


Hi, guys...I'm looking for an application that will recurse through
VB.net and VB6 directory structures in VSS (I can also copy the files
locally), looking for comments such as:

'=================================================
' Developer     :  John Smith
' Create Date   :  11/15/2005
' Description   :  This method will take an HTTP 
'                  Request and serialize it down 
'                  to an XML string.  Used by 
'                  PayloadBuilder in creating SOAP
'================================================= 

and write them out to a text, doc, rtf, xls, or cvs file that I can
then edit and give back to the developers for update.

All I need included is the VB file name and the comments.

BTW...Richard...if you are out there...you know that I have
Document!X. However, I understand that for it to extract comments,
they need to be prefixed with ##. Any way of changing that to read
the code as I show above?

Any help out there?

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

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