Regex to pull out C function prototype declarations?

Question

I\'m somewhere on the learning curve when it comes to regular expressions, and I need to use them to automatically modify function prototypes in a bunch of C headers. Does

Answer 1

A one liner regex sounds very hard. I personally use a perl script for that. It's kind of easy. The basic aproach is> 1. Call your favorite c preprocessor to eliminate comments and get macros expanded. (so it's easier) 2. Count '{' '}' symbols. For functions in plain C they have a predictable behavior that will allow you to detect function names. 3. Look the function names into the original source (before preprocessing to get the signature that has typedefs) It is an inefficiency approach but it works quite well for me. Step 1 is not really necessary but it will make your life easier