How can I count the number of lines of code in a project?

Question

I want to be able to count the number of lines of code in my project. There are about 600 files with many lines of code in each. Can I do that with FileLocator Pro?

Answer 1

Yes you can. First you need to run a search to capture all the lines of code, e.g. a regular expression like this:

^.*$

After the search has been run you can use the Keyword reports to count those lines, either by file or as a whole. The only change we need to make is to switch OFF the Keyword Hit column (which would otherwise show each captured line).

Here's an example of the Keyword Summary Report:

And an example of the Keyword by File Report:

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Notes:

1. Because FileLocator Pro is capturing every line in every file it can consume a lot of memory when run over large code bases.

2. If you code base has very large files (ie > 10,000 lines of code per file) then you will probably need to increase the maximum lines per file configuration setting.