C++ Divide By Zero Parser

[readysetgo]

Hi everyone,

I am interested in writing a script/tool to parse C++ code in order to find lines when division is being used. I guess this could be accomplished by simply doing a search on "/" on all of the code. Only problem is that this will return lines with comments as well.

Do you have any suggestions on how to implement this?

Thanks.

[LB]

Don't scan / that have another / next to them?

[Disch]

yeah, you'll have to ignore //, /* and */

[readysetgo]

thanks guys. I'm wondering if I should do this in Python (have never used Python before, but heard it would be great for this kind of task).

[Silvermaul]

You will need some regular expression engine. If you can't use boost regex I suggest uding perl. python or whatever language you find suitable.