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TODO list bot

Started by Leadorn Nov 27, 2004 at 4:37 PM 10 replies 1.6k views

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Nov 27, 2004 at 4:37 PM

Hi Do you know of any program that can search thought source files for //TODO: strings and add it to a nice html document? Whenever you se a flaw or anything you don’t like and you don’t have time to fix it at the moment, or if it isent you code then you just but a //TODO: Leadorn this shit is fucked up and continue. It would be a nice program to have.

JiveTurkey

Nov 27, 2004 at 4:45 PM

why don't you write one? you seem to know how to program and it a very challenging program to create.

Leadorn

Nov 27, 2004 at 4:53 PM

i dont have time and i dont want to. Why code one when there might be one out there.

Joakim_ar

Nov 27, 2004 at 4:56 PM

Well SharpDevelop gives you a nice list (see: view -> task list).

But if you want a tool for it, it's really just a matter of finding any [/][/][\t\s]*TODO[:][^\r\n]* that is not in a string " ", and you can pretty safely assume that there are no multi line strings, which means that you can just search line by line...

Flarelocke

Nov 27, 2004 at 5:07 PM

grep TODO *.c

ph34r m4 l33t c0dx0ring skills

Eclipse also has a built in list for these things, IIRC.

Leadorn

Nov 27, 2004 at 5:14 PM

yepp grep would work if you only want that row. But i need something more.

tentoid

Nov 27, 2004 at 5:26 PM

Quote:
Original post by Leadorn
Hi

Do you know of any program that can search thought source files for //TODO: strings and add it to a nice html document?

Whenever you se a flaw or anything you don’t like and you don’t have time to fix it at the moment, or if it isent you code then you just but a //TODO: Leadorn this shit is fucked up and continue. It would be a nice program to have.

Sounds like a job for.. grep! You can probably write a simple script that HTMLizes the output for you.

EDIT: Ah, grep was already mentioned..

Lantz

Nov 27, 2004 at 5:35 PM

Visual Studio .NET also has such a feature.

Leadorn

Nov 27, 2004 at 5:36 PM

im using doxygen, but thanks for all help

Leadorn

Nov 27, 2004 at 5:36 PM

im using doxygen, but thanks for all help

Ravyne

Nov 27, 2004 at 5:44 PM

I'm pretty positive Doxygen will do that for you, at least it will pick out the TODOs on a per file/module basis. I'm resonably certain that it can be configured to output an overall todo list as well.

Ravyne

Nov 27, 2004 at 5:47 PM

From the Doxygen documentation:

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\todo { paragraph describing what is to be done }
Starts a paragraph where a TODO item is described. The description will also add an item to a separate TODO list. The two instances of the description will be cross-referenced. Each item in the TODO list will be preceded by a header that indicates the origin of the item.

I think it has to be put in a function header... you'd have to try inlining it into the code and see if it works.

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