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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:25:12 +0200
From:      Kyrre =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nyg=E5rd?= <kyrreny@broadpark.no>
To:        "Matti J. Karki" <mjk@iki.fi>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Code beautifiers, anyone?
Message-ID:  <7.0.1.0.2.20060824192439.02386de8@broadpark.no>
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At 15:18 24.08.2006, Matti J. Karki wrote:

>Well, my suggestion to anyone asking this question is that the best
>thing IMHO is to learn some scripting language with good regular
>expression support. For example Tcl, Python or Perl. I have to deal
>with all sorts of source code and I have noticed that - for me - the
>easiest path is to first study the source code and then create a
>simple script to beautify the code. It takes less time than trying to
>find some suitable tool, which may not even product exactly the style
>I want.

Very well said man, this is indeed my goal too!

Perhaps you could share with us whatever scripts you've written?

Thanks!




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