Lines of code

Bart

OK, so how many lines is your current project? I bet you are like me AND YOU DONT KNOW!

bart

Marc Clifton

Bart wrote:

How many did you write and how many were generated by a tool?

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Bart

Hah, found this C#, Visual Basic and C++ .NET Line Count Utility[^]

bart

Member 96

I remember caring about that waaaay back in the day. These days it's pretty irrelevant with all the template generated lines etc. The app I'm working on today has over 20 projects in the solution. Lines of code must be zillions by now. ;)

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PIEBALDconsult

What's a line of code? I can break a statement onto many lines, and I can put many statements on one line. A C/C++/C# source file may contain no linefeeds at all (only pre-processor directives require them). Counting statements might make some sense, but even that is fairly pointless. Just say "42".

Mycroft Holmes

Why should you even care, you will be responsible for it no matter where it comes from. What if you wrote the code generator, does that get special status. Talk about stupid questions! And no I have no idea and could care even less.

Bart

Hold said horse. He was only a mate and just asked out of curiosity. He was wondering how I understood all that foreign tongue stuff. He is probably a bit like DD's boss. (No, he didnt touch my PC)

bart

jesarg

You could always write a utility to count semi-colons in all files in a directory to give you a rough estimate.

AspDotNetDev

Use a regular expression file search tool to count the number of semicolons in your project, and exclude the files that are designer created. First, copy all the files to a temp directory. Then search that directory for all the designer files; delete those files. Searching for the number of semicolons should then give you a pretty accurate estimate of number of lines. If you want actual lines rather than lines of code, you could use the same regular expression approach to count the number of line endings. Actually, that approach wouldn't work with me. Most of my code is XAML (hand typed, not designer generated), so there are no semicolons to count. An alternative approach would be to decide how many characters an average line takes up (say, 80), then divide the file size by that number to get the approximate number of lines. Might have to use half that number if the text uses one of those "double wide" character encodings.

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Steve Mayfield

Software metrics tools for C/C++ [^]

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bryce

fair enough - you do have to be careful about what you mate gets to touch *grin* Bryce

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Mycroft Holmes

In which case he owes you a beer while you describe what you do, I'm betting you can drag it out for a couple of beer but you are going to have to watch out for that glazed look that come into their eyes.

Christian Graus

There are plenty of free VS add ins that generate that number for you.

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PIEBALDconsult

int x ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
x = 42 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Yusuf

it is still 42 :^)

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AspDotNetDev

I would say semicolon counting is still more accurate for counting lines of code than line endings. And like others have said, counting the number of lines is no measure of quality (the above code being of crap quality, but a large number of lines). Or the two method could be combined into something like this:

int numberOfLines = Regex.Matches(@"\;( |\t)*(\r|\n|\\\\|\\\*)", fileText).Count;

But then some trickster could get you with this:

public void DoIt()
{
int x
= 5; int
y = 10;}

However, if the guy just wants to tell his friend how much code he wrote, this method (or similar approximations) should work fine.

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PIEBALDconsult

Does that handle for loops?

for
(
int i = 0 ;
i < 10 ;
i++
)
{
...
}

alex barylski

Run a metrics calcuation tool before you write a single line of code. Whenever you generate code automagically using some tool, run it again before and after. Calculate your averages, it's not that hard. Google SLOCCount it's a linux tool that calculates SLOC for many languages, I use t all the time :) Cheers, Alex

Mark_Wallace

Just reply "I wrote all the good ones, and tool who sits by the window wrote the rest".

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OriginalGriff

I don't know; I also don't care. "Lines of code" is a meaningless statistic, and has been since Cobol and Fortran stopped being the standard languages. Is a line with just an "{" or "}" a "line of code"? Or is

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                                        " SET role=@R, dateNextChangeRole=@NCR, data=@D, ValidationCode=@VC" +
                                        " WHERE UserId = @ID");
    cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@R", role);
    cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@NCR", dateNextChange);
    cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@D", data);
    cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@VC", validationCode);
    cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@ID", userId);

One "line of code", since it will not work without the entire sequence? Forget "lines of code", think "functional blocks", think "tested and peer reviewed", think deadlines, bug count, any performance measure that actually means something!

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