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Re: Search within function for text
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Tassilo Horn |
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Re: Search within function for text |
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Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:44:29 +0100 |
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Glen Stark <mail@glenstark.net> writes:
Hi Glen,
> I would like to find all occurences of a bit of text that fall within
> a certain function name. I'm programming in C++, and several classes
> have their own implementations of foo(), and I'd like to find all
> occurrences of the string "bar" within functions named "foo()".
At least you can't do that with regular expressions but you need to
something which actually understands C++ syntax.
> Does anyone know of a way I can do this?
Have a look at CEDET. Assuming foo is not just a string but a variable
or function, `semantic-symref' might do exactly what you want:
http://cedet.sourceforge.net/symref.shtml
Bye,
Tassilo