#!/usr/bin/perl $file = shift or die "Usage: $0 \n"; if (! -r $file) { die "Cannot find file $file\n"; } open FILE, "<$file"; while ($line = ) { if ($continue) { $end = index($line, "*/"); if ($end != -1) { $continue = 0; $count++; $line = substr($line, $end + 2); } else { next; } } while (1) { if ($line =~ m#(/[/\*])#) { if ($1 eq '//') { $count++; last; } else { $pos = index($line, "/*"); $end = index($line, "*/", $pos); if ($end == -1) { # Continue on into following lines $continue = 1; last; } else { $count++; $line = substr($line, $end + 2); } } } else { last; } } } close FILE; print "Comments counted: $count\n";