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Adam Driscoll
Adam Driscoll

Reputation: 9483

Searching For String Literals

In the quest for localization I need to find all the string literals littered amongst our source code. I was looking for a way to script this into a post-modification source repository check. (I.E. after some one checks something in have a box setup to check this stat) I'll probably use NAnt and CruiseControl or something to handle the management of the CVS (Well StarTeam in my case :( ) But do you know of any scriptable (or command line) utility to accurately cycle through source code looking for string literals? I realize I could do simple string look up based on regular expressions but want a little more bang for my buck. (Maybe analyze the string or put it into categories) Because a lot of times the string may not necessarily require translation. Any ideas?

Upvotes: 20

Views: 12354

Answers (7)

Kirill
Kirill

Reputation: 11

Complementing the answer. To exclude commented out lines and summary lines, use this : ^(?!\s{0,}[/]{2,}).+((".+?")|('.+?'))

Upvotes: 1

Edward Koetsjarjan
Edward Koetsjarjan

Reputation: 333

hi this is regex for searching literals, that I use to find a text for translation. it also includes empty spaces and different quotes

regex:

([",`,'])([\w,\s]*)([",`,'])

searchstring: var test='This is a test';

Upvotes: 0

Kleberson Leite
Kleberson Leite

Reputation: 29

  1. Find In Files (CTRL+SHIFT+F)
  2. Find options -> Check Use Regular Expressions

For specific text within the literal:

  1. Find what: "+.*(MYSPECIFICTEXT)+.*"+

For all literals

  1. Find what: "+.*"+

Then

  1. Find All

Upvotes: 2

gleichdanke
gleichdanke

Reputation: 171

To find all Text="textonly" instances use the following Regular Expression when searching:

(Text=)(")([a-z])

This is help for finding Text="*" but excluding text that's already been converted to use resource files:

Text="<%$ Resources:LocalizedText, KeyNameFromResourceFile%>"

Also (>)([a-z]) can be used to find literals between tags like so:

<h1>HeaderText</h1>

Upvotes: 1

Duncan Smart
Duncan Smart

Reputation: 32068

Visual Studio 2010 and earlier:

  1. Find In Files (CTRL+SHIFT+F)
  2. Use: Regular Expressions
  3. Find: :q (quoted string)
  4. Find All

Find Results window will now contain a report of all files, with line numbers and the line itself with the quoted string.

For Visual Studio 2012 and later search for ((\".+?\")|('.+?')) (reference, hat-tip to @CincauHangus)

Upvotes: 41

Chris Farmer
Chris Farmer

Reputation: 25415

It uses the compiled binary instead of source, but Sysinternals' Strings app might be useful.

Upvotes: 2

Mark Cidade
Mark Cidade

Reputation: 100007

There's a C# parser on CodePlex that you can probably use.

Upvotes: 0

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