Tidy tool for C++

[Markus]

Hi

I just wrote a mini tidy tool for cpp, as some weeks ago i was using the dev-cpp IDE my indents were very bad placed and the source was nearly impossible to read. Now i changed my IDE but wanted to have my old cpp sources. As it would have been much work to do all indents afterwards on my own i wrote this script. (I'm sure there are scripts available, that do the same as my prog, but it needed less time to write that tool than search such a program)

For example it changes something like that:

for(int i=1; i<=line_nr; i++)
                {
            for(int k=1; k<=gradue_of_indents; k++)
                    {
                lines[i]="\t" + lines[i];
        }
                    for(int u=0; u<=lines[i].length(); u++)
            {
                    if(lines[i].substr(u,1)=="{" )
                {
                    gradue_of_indents++;
            }
                else if(lines[i].substr(u,1)=="}" )
                {
  gradue_of_indents--;
           debugcounter++; 
}
        }
        lines[i]=lines[i].substr(debugcounter,lines[i].length()+debugcounter);
        debugcounter=0;
    }

to that:

for(int i=1; i<=line_nr; i++)
{
    for(int k=1; k<=gradue_of_indents; k++)
    {
        lines[i]="\t" + lines[i];
    }
    for(int u=0; u<=lines[i].length(); u++)
    {
        if(lines[i].substr(u,1)=="{" )
            {
                gradue_of_indents++;
            }
        else if(lines[i].substr(u,1)=="}" )
        {
            gradue_of_indents--;
            debugcounter++; 
        }
    }
    lines[i]=lines[i].substr(debugcounter,lines[i].length()+debugcounter);
    debugcounter=0;
}

I don't know, if it's useful for you, for me it was

Here's the code (just copy it as a usual cpp console project):

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
char * sourcepath="C:\\Dokumente und Einstellungen\\Markus\\Desktop\\part_to_clean.txt";
char * destpath="C:\\Dokumente und Einstellungen\\Markus\\Desktop\\part_to_clean_cleaned.txt";
int main()
{
    ifstream work_file;
    work_file.open(sourcepath);
    string lines[10000];
    int line_nr=0;
    string temp_line;
    while (getline(work_file, temp_line) )
    {
        lines[++line_nr] = temp_line;
    }

    //remove all indents and empties
    for(int i=1; i<=line_nr; i++)
    {
        for(int u=0; u<=lines[i].length(); u++)
        {
            if(lines[i].substr(u,1)!=" " && lines[i].substr(u,1)!="\t")
            {
                if(u>0)
                {
                    lines[i]=lines[i].substr(u--,lines[i].length()-u);
                }
                break;
            }
        }
    }

    //add right indents
    int gradue_of_indents=0;
    int debugcounter=0;
    for(int i=1; i<=line_nr; i++)
    {
        for(int k=1; k<=gradue_of_indents; k++)
        {
            lines[i]="\t" + lines[i];
        }
        for(int u=0; u<=lines[i].length(); u++)
        {
            if(lines[i].substr(u,1)=="{" )
            {
                gradue_of_indents++;
            }
            else if(lines[i].substr(u,1)=="}" )
            {
                gradue_of_indents--;
                debugcounter++; //wird gebraucht, da schließende klammer eigtl nicht mehr soweit eingerückt wird wie gradue of indents am anfang angibt, daher wird wenn schließende klammer auftaucht debugger hoch gezählt und die tabs removt am ende
            }
        }
        lines[i]=lines[i].substr(debugcounter,lines[i].length()+debugcounter);
        debugcounter=0;
    }

    ofstream write_file;
    write_file.open(destpath);
    for (int i=1; i<=line_nr; i++)
    {
        cout<<lines[i]<<endl;
        write_file.write(lines[i].c_str(), lines[i].length() );
        write_file.write("\n", 1 );
    }

    system("PAUSE");
    return 0;
}

You only have to change the two vars "sourcepath" and "destpath", that's all, have fun with it^^

Markus

[JSThePatriot]

Markus, I appreciate the contributions in the C++ area you have made to the AutoIt community. I would like to recommend an IDE that has several notations built in.

Code::Blocks.

Again thank you for your additions,

JS

[Richard Robertson]

Nice job, but what happens if it runs into code errors?

[Markus]

Yeah, Code::Blocks seems to be quite nice. For sure much better than old dev-cpp.

Nice job, but what happens if it runs into code errors?

If there is a missing closing bracket or something like this, you might notice that very fast after tidying your source with that tool, because your indents could be a little strange than in the part following the missing bracket.