How To Find String Literals

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As a precursor to translation, I'm trying to make sure all our strings are in the string table.

Does anyone know / have a regular expression to find strings in VS2010? (Via quotes?) Preferably excluding include statements and (C++) comments.

Thanks!

Posted 15-Sep-11 18:32pm

Kyudos

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 16-Sep-11 17:16pm

How you define a string? A whole C++ file content is string, a reserved word is a string, an identifier. What do you want to do with expression? Define you tokenization, that's it.
--SA

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Solution 1

Concrete regular exceptions is not something to be known to be in someone's possession. This is something to be build to the required task.

No, they won't help you where a serious parser is required. Do I understand you right that you want to parse C++ code?
You will need to learn this field. Start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Parsing_algorithms[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar[^].

—SA

Posted 16-Sep-11 11:22am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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**`Randor`** · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-16T13:05:00

Solution 2

Yes.

How to use regular expressions to find and replace string literals in your Visual Studio C++ Projects[^]

Best Wishes,
-David Delaune

Posted 16-Sep-11 13:05pm

Randor