C# Preprocessor

[Christopher Ireland]

Hello,

I'm looking for a C# Preprocessor (shareware with source, if possible)
which has the functionality of preprocessors which already exist in
other languages, e.g.

http://www.zeitungsjunge.de/delphi/dipp/

DIPP is a Pascal Preprocessor. The purpose of DIPP is to manipulate
Pascal source code files.

DIPP can

* remove comments
* process compiler directives and switches
* remove compiler conditionals by wild card masks
* remove compiler directives by wild card masks
* insert, read, or skip include files by wild card masks
* extract units' interface sections

Such a tool would be very useful for parsing C# source files before
making them available to third parties. Can anybody suggest such a tool
to me please?

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[Frans Bouma [C# MVP]]

Re: C# Preprocessor

Christopher Ireland wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for a C# Preprocessor (shareware with source, if possible)
> which has the functionality of preprocessors which already exist in
> other languages, e.g.
>
> http://www.zeitungsjunge.de/delphi/dipp/
>
> DIPP is a Pascal Preprocessor. The purpose of DIPP is to manipulate
> Pascal source code files.
>
> DIPP can
>
> * remove comments
> * process compiler directives and switches
> * remove compiler conditionals by wild card masks
> * remove compiler directives by wild card masks
> * insert, read, or skip include files by wild card masks
> * extract units' interface sections
>
> Such a tool would be very useful for parsing C# source files before
> making them available to third parties. Can anybody suggest such a
> tool to me please?[/color]

I'm not aware of such a preprocessor for C# as the usage for such a
tool isn't that common. I've written a comment stripper once, see this
blogpost:

http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2005/08/19/423047.aspx

It's not 100% perfect, but as the source comes with it, you can tweak
it further. It's easily upgradable for doing other things as well, just
add more regexp's :)

FB

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[Christopher Ireland]

Re: C# Preprocessor

Frans Bouma [C# MVP] wrote:
[color=blue]
> Christopher Ireland wrote:[color=green]
> > Such a tool would be very useful for parsing C# source files before
> > making them available to third parties. Can anybody suggest such a
> > tool to me please?[/color]
>
> I'm not aware of such a preprocessor for C# as the usage for such a
> tool isn't that common. I've written a comment stripper once, see this
> blogpost:
> http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archiv...19/423047.aspx
>
> It's not 100% perfect, but as the source comes with it, you can tweak
> it further. It's easily upgradable for doing other things as well,
> just add more regexp's :)
>
> FB[/color]

Thanks Frans!

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Christopher Ireland
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"... the question of whether Machines Can Think ... is about as
relevant
as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim."
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra