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On 19-May-2015 12:36 -0500, Dan wrote:
On 19-May-2015 12:07 -0500, John Yeung wrote:
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Dan wrote:
My motivation to do this is that I have to scan about 200 source
members, and there is the likelihood that this will turn into a
system-wide endeavor. (I.e. thousands of source members.)

<<SNIP>> (2) no matter if it's tens of thousands, this kind of
thing is still *usually* something that humans (not programs)
ultimately act on. For example, when we were doing our Y2K
conversion, we found who knows how many instances where something
had to be fixed. But we did all those fixes by hand (yes, it was
one of the most tedious things imaginable). So for that project, it
would not have made much of a difference whether the searches
ignored comments or not.


Understood on the manual effort. The thing about this one is that a
plain search for *MDY will find all of the programs for which *MDY
conversions have already been modified to something that won't abend
when handling a date > 2039. (And for which the *MDY code will have
been commented out.) This accounts for probably 90% of our code base
currently. Which means that I would end up *manually* throwing out
90% of the results for many hundreds of source members.
<<SNIP>>


Excluding sources already processed might be a simpler task.? Then just scan those remaining, irrespective the possibility /hits/ might be from what are in comments, and review the entirety. As I noted in my reply on the WDSCI-l, the benefits of seeing what the comments might help bring-to-light can actually have more value to such a project than what eliminating the comments from the scans can achieve; and excluding review of the comments may ultimately result in required changes being missed\overlooked.


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