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On 18-May-2015 13:22 -0500, Dan wrote:
I posted a similar message in Midrange-L, but then remembered iSphere's Source File Search, and wondered if the function I'm looking for (below) could be integrated into this. I need to do a bulk search of source (ala FNDSTRPDM) but with the ability to ignore all comments. I'm guessing this is custom-written app, but it seems to be that this would be a valuable tool for many programmers, especially for those in shops where code is never deleted outright, but is commented-out. Specifically, I am looking for all usages of '*MDY' (and other formats utilizing 2-digit years). Has someone already invented this wheel?
FWiW, I do not recall ever wanting to exclude the comments in such searches. All too often the necessary hints for what I am looking for exist conspicuously only in comments. While the seemingly over-exhaustive list of potentially important snippets might have at times been overwhelming in amounts of data to process, having caught the required changes that otherwise likely would have been overlooked, were always the better outcome in value, easily eclipsing the additional cost in time\effort of poring over that much more output.
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