Counting loops and Ifs in a piece of code (Resolved)

hi everyone

Im quite new to vb so please bear with me.
What I would like to do is write a piece of vb code
which will read in another piece of vb code line by line.
But it needs to be able to count how many occurances
of a loop and IF statements which appear in that code.
This must however ignore any IFs or similar words that
may appear in any comments or within a string.

Hope that makes sense.

So far ive managed to write a very simple piece of code
which counts the number of FORs, IFs, and WHILEs.

VB Code:

Dim strText As String
Dim intCounter1 As Integer
Dim intCounter2 As Integer
Dim intCounter3 As Integer
 
Open "C:\blah\blah\something.txt" For Input As #1
 
While Not EOF(1)
 
  Line Input #1, strText
 
    If InStr(strText, "End If") <> 0 Then
      intCounter1 = intCounter1 + 1
    End If
    
    If InStr(strText, "Loop") <> 0 Then
      intCounter2 = intCounter2 + 1
    End If
    
    If InStr(strText, "Wend") <> 0 Then
      intCounter3 = intCounter3 + 1
    End If
   
Wend
 
txtIf.Text = intCounter1
txtFor.Text = intCounter2
txtWhile.Text = intCounter3
txtTotal.Text = intCounter1 + intCounter2 + intCounter3
 
Close #1 
 
End Sub

Thanks in advance for any advice or tips.

You'll need some Trim's, perhaps get rid of preceeding vbTab chars, and be able to Detect and ignore Commented segments. But it looks like you're headed in the right direction.

Perhaps use Text Arrays holding the keywords you want to detect, doing a looping comparison instead of a whole series of individual if statements, and incrimenting another array at the index when you do get a match. And, also, instead of individual text boxes for displaying results, use a control array of text boxes, again allowing you to loop to output your results.

Perhaps you'd like to include Position counters, so you know which lines in the inspected code contain your hits?



;)
-Lou

Believe it or not, VB still supports BASIC's way of inluding comments so when looking for them you might want to watch out for something like

VB Code:

Rem This is a comment

Don't forget about the single line If statement. Your existing code will not count those because a single line If does not require an End If.

Here's a slight modification

VB Code:

'...
Do While Not EOF(1)
 
  Line Input #1, strText
 
   'Remove spaces on either side of the text, and convert to uppercase 
   '(easier to check it safely)
  strText = Ucase(Trim(strText))
 
                                        'Make sure it's not a comment
  If Left(strText,1) <> "'" And Ucase(Left(strText,4)) <> "REM " Then
 
'Using InStr allows the text to be part of a string, left makes sure its the 
'first part of the line (after the spaces, which we've removed already)
        If Left(strText, 3) = "IF " Then
          intCounter1 = intCounter1 + 1
        End If
    
'these are a little more awkward, since they may or may not have code after
'(eg:  "Loop" is valid, so is "Loop While x=1")
        If Left(strText,5) = "LOOP " or strText = "LOOP" Then
          intCounter2 = intCounter2 + 1
        End If
 
        If Left(strText,5) = "WEND " or strText = "WEND" Then
          intCounter3 = intCounter3 + 1
        End If
    End If
   
Loop  '(I dont like Wend, can't remember why!)
 
txtIf.Text = intCounter1
'...

this doesn't take into account the problem of using : to combine multiple lines of code onto one line, but it's a little better ;)

Thanks very much si_the_geek. I appreciate that.
Cheers for the comments from the other as well
:D

Don't foregt that when you consider comments you also need to consider cases like this and not count the For and Next in the comment

VB Code:

For X = 1 to 5 ' The For Next statement purpose is...