Re: tool to reformat text?

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From: Paul Russell
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 03:40

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Burt Johnson wrote:

> I have just inherited a project that I will now be responsible for.  The
> prior programmer used spaces to indent, while I strongly prefer tabs.
> 
> Is there any program out there to go through and properly reformat the
> existing code?
> 
> Note that I don't want to just use a simple seach-and-replace since that
> would also nail spaces embedded in quoted strings, etc.  Also, by the
> nature of using spaces, sometimes he didn't have the exact correct
> number, so things could get a bit messy there too.
> 

There's an open source tool called "astyle" whcih should do what you 
want. <http://www.bigfoot.com/~davidsont/astyle>

Paul

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