Don’t underestimate grep-based code scanning

Re:Don’t underestimate grep-based code scanning by paulddraper on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:27PM (#20638007)

I find that line wrapping frequently prevents me from getting complete coverage though. So it works for some cases, not for others.

But I do love auto-formatters. (I'm doing web dev at the moment, so Prettier.) It is freeing to not worry about spacing, line breaks, parens, etc.

All I have to do is give the computer a valid AST and it does The Right Thing.

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Re:Don’t underestimate grep-based code scanning by jandrese on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:52PM (#20638214)

Isn't this what the /s flag is for in your regex? Assuming you are also using /x of course.

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Re:Don’t underestimate grep-based code scanning by paulddraper on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:53PM (#20638229)

Sort of. But there's indentation, so I need repetition.

And if I'm doing whitespace repetition, there's no great advantage in an autoformatter.

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Re:Don’t underestimate grep-based code scanning by jandrese on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:06PM (#20638358)

You do have to be more liberal with '\s*' or '\s+' instead of just ' ' in your patterns, that is true.

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