Lines of code

[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

    MySqlCommand cmd = new MySqlCommand("UPDATE " + TableNames.my\_RoleAndPerformance.ToString() +
                                        " 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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[Stuart Dootson]

As I program in C++ generally, I'll just use this command at the root of my source tree:

ack --cpp -c ; | wc -l

This counts all semi-colons, which is a reasonable approximation for the total lines in the project. I never differentiate between auto-generated/me-generated lines.

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[Chris Quinn]

>>> how many were generated by a tool? For some of the people I work with, this is 100%!

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[Anna Jayne Metcalfe]

283,000 at the last formal build. I know because we track a variety of project metrics on each build using the (free) SourceMonitor[^] tool. I'm more interested in average cyclomatic complexity has gone down (which is good as it means that the code is getting less crufty) or up (which implies that some of the changes in the build are more complex than they need to be) rather than LOC, but we get that as well.

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[PIEBALDconsult]

Oh, and semi-colons in verbatim strings:

string sql =
@"
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table1 ;
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table2
" ;