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Subject:Re: Pull comments from .VB files From:Paul Pehrson <paulpehrson -at- gmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:47:56 -0700
Another pain-in-the-rear solution could be XSLT. If you are familiar
enough with XSLT, you could write an XSLT transform to parse the
original files and output whatever you wanted in whatever format you
wanted.
Not easy, but possible....
Good luck,
Paul Pehrson
Midvale, UT
On 1/11/06, Craig Haiss <craighaiss -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> Hopefully someone can suggest an application; there's no point in reinventing the wheel. But if you have to, Perl might be a solution.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> 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.
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