find/xargs/*grep: find multi-line empty "try-catch" blocks - eg, missing ; not in a commented block
How can I recursively find all files in a directory and print out the file and first line number of any text blocks that match the below cases?
This would seem to involve find, xargs, *grep, regex, etc.
In summary, I want to find so-called empty "try-catch blocks" that do not contain code inside them (do not contain a semicolon ';')
Below are the most simple to the most sophisticated cases I'd like to find.
Code:
// MOST SIMPLE - find catch(...) { //just white-spaces over possibly multiple lines }
try(...)
catch( match this catch block because there is nothing but white-spaces between the below '{' and '})
{
}
// BETTER - find missing ';'
try(...)
catch()
{
match this because there is no semi-colon between the braces
}
try(...)
catch(...)
{
do not match this, because it does contain a semi-colon here;
}
try(...)
catch(match this)
{
}
// BEST - consider comment-blocks
try(...)
catch(...)
{
<!--- the <!--- and ---> are coldfusion tags that indicate a comment block.
As such, we should match this line that *does* contain a ; because this ; is not actually part of any in-use code --->
}
Moderator's Comments:
please use code tags
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 03-12-2012 at 11:09 AM..
Hi Friends,
Can any of you explain me about the below line of code?
mn_code=`env|grep "..mn"|awk -F"=" '{print $2}'`
Im not able to understand, what exactly it is doing :confused:
Any help would be useful for me.
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catch
catch(n) Tcl Built-In Commands catch(n)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
catch - Evaluate script and trap exceptional returns
SYNOPSIS
catch script ?resultVarName? ?optionsVarName?
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
The catch command may be used to prevent errors from aborting command interpretation. The catch command calls the Tcl interpreter recur-
sively to execute script, and always returns without raising an error, regardless of any errors that might occur while executing script.
If script raises an error, catch will return a non-zero integer value corresponding to the exceptional return code returned by evaluation
of script. Tcl defines the normal return code from script evaluation to be zero (0), or TCL_OK. Tcl also defines four exceptional return
codes: 1 (TCL_ERROR), 2 (TCL_RETURN), 3 (TCL_BREAK), and 4 (TCL_CONTINUE). Errors during evaluation of a script are indicated by a return
code of TCL_ERROR. The other exceptional return codes are returned by the return, break, and continue commands and in other special situa-
tions as documented. Tcl packages can define new commands that return other integer values as return codes as well, and scripts that make
use of the return -code command can also have return codes other than the five defined by Tcl.
If the resultVarName argument is given, then the variable it names is set to the result of the script evaluation. When the return code
from the script is 1 (TCL_ERROR), the value stored in resultVarName is an error message. When the return code from the script is 0
(TCL_OK), the value stored in resultVarName is the value returned from script.
If the optionsVarName argument is given, then the variable it names is set to a dictionary of return options returned by evaluation of |
script. Tcl specifies two entries that are always defined in the dictionary: -code and -level. When the return code from evaluation of |
script is not TCL_RETURN, the value of the -level entry will be 0, and the value of the -code entry will be the same as the return code. |
Only when the return code is TCL_RETURN will the values of the -level and -code entries be something else, as further described in the doc- |
umentation for the return command. |
When the return code from evaluation of script is TCL_ERROR, three additional entries are defined in the dictionary of return options |
stored in optionsVarName: -errorinfo, -errorcode, and -errorline. The value of the -errorinfo entry is a formatted stack trace containing |
more information about the context in which the error happened. The formatted stack trace is meant to be read by a person. The value of |
the -errorcode entry is additional information about the error stored as a list. The -errorcode value is meant to be further processed by |
programs, and may not be particularly readable by people. The value of the -errorline entry is an integer indicating which line of script |
was being evaluated when the error occurred. The values of the -errorinfo and -errorcode entries of the most recent error are also avail- |
able as values of the global variables ::errorInfo and ::errorCode respectively. |
Tcl packages may provide commands that set other entries in the dictionary of return options, and the return command may be used by scripts |
to set return options in addition to those defined above.
EXAMPLES
The catch command may be used in an if to branch based on the success of a script.
if { [catch {open $someFile w} fid] } {
puts stderr "Could not open $someFile for writing
$fid"
exit 1
}
There are more complex examples of catch usage in the documentation for the return command.
SEE ALSO
break(n), continue(n), dict(n), error(n), return(n), tclvars(n)
KEYWORDS
catch, error
Tcl 8.5 catch(n)
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