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I've tested pck and it works
currently exports to yacc and lex as well as being a parser generator in its own right.
I intend to add more importers and exporters to the thing.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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My question is somewhat religious and definitely mundane compared to the guy who wants to write an OS in .net, but I live in the world of maintenance code. My bugaboo is consistency. Take a project of veteran developers (they each have their own style) add a few whiz kids (who have their own styles), add code standards that are pretty much ignored, and shake. The results can be mind-boggling. I've seen coding conventions deal with many issues, but I don't think I've seen one dealing with filenames and their construction. In the project I am re-factoring now, the file system is fixed. The primary folders in the root are fixed, so we have something like:
\root
application
backup
archives
I have a lot of code that builds file specifications including folder names. A great deal of concatenation, removing slashes, adding slashes and what not, it just begs for errors. So instead of something like this:
#define ROOT_FOLDER L"\\root"
#define APP_FOLDER L"application"
#define BACKUP_FOLDER L"backup"
#define ARCHIVE_FOLDER L"archives"
and then constructing complete file specs, I re-factored to something like this:
#define ROOT_FOLDER L"\\root"
#define APP_FOLDER L"\\root\\application"
#define BACKUP_FOLDER L"\\root\\backup"
#define ARCHIVE_FOLDER L"\\root\\archives"
and deleted as much string formatting code that I could. Then I got to thinking, maybe there should be a trailing slash as well - which led me here to ask how others like to do this...
Thoughts?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: I live in the world of maintenance code. We will have you in our prayers.
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Nah, it comes with its own set of challenges. Besides, I can always blame the original developers.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Path.Combine() automatically handles doubled up or missing backslashes so I don't worry about it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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that looks like C, not C#
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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My thoughts exactly
I'm not sure if that's available in C, but it shouldn't be hard to write
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I'm so used to Path.Combine, that if I had to go to a system without it, I'd probably have to roll my own - it's just too useful!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's actually C++ code, but what amazes me is the lack of writing something like PathCombine. Yes, I have a new project.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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This may help: Reference Source: Path.Combine[^]
And when you get it working, stick it up as an article / tip for others to enjoy!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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As long as I've been on this site, you have a point.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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i prefer trailing slashes at the end of directory names. That way you can distinguish them programmatically and visually from filenames
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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BURN THE W... Oh wait, that actually makes a lot of sense
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come over to the dark side. we have cookies.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Come over to the Light Side: we have , and Pizza.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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i don't drink and my pizza has to be gay.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the monster, codewitch wrote: my pizza has to be gay.
That's easy: just put ham and pineapple on it.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Comment begged by your post:
honey the monster, codewitch wrote: pizza has to be gay. Pineapple topping?
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absolutely.
Although a cowboy with white sauce also counts.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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stop hijacking my thread
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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slashes go at the end of directories. There you go. =D
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Over the years I have learned not to care. I have seen and done both so when I start building paths I use PathAddBackslash because it adds one only if necessary. This way the code can accommodate both options.
Lately, I use no leading slashes and I have trailing slashes on directories. Plane, old file names never have them.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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In DOS, I prefer trailing backslashes on directory paths.
I have begun to try getting into the habit of specifying them on the command line to avoid a certain class of error to which I have proven prone time and time again.
Remember, also, that a _real_ Operating System has a better file specification system:
nodename::devicename:[directoryname.directoryname]filename.extension
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: nodename::devicename:[directoryname.directoryname]filename.extension;version
But I never wave bye bye
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Poop! I'm rusty.
Muchas gracias.
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