Is there a tool to list all the string literals in your application?

I want to list all the strings in my app and save them in a file or look up table from which I can change them or translate them to a different language if necessary.

Is there some app to do that?

On linux you have a command named "strings"

$ strings <app>

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Is there some Lazarus/FPC related app to do that?

I am interested in one that parses the source code rather than the executable.

Can some development related utility find all the string literals and print out their line numbers?

If you are using resourcestring, then FPC extract an rst file for that. If you wish to have all of the strings extracted, then there is none that I know of.

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Is there some Lazarus/FPC related app to do that?

You can use the FPC preprocessor and change the filter to output the string literals.

I'm not sure about the state of the preprocessor in the SVN. If it doesn't work with option -m, ask the FPC developers about the integration of my according work in the dodi branches.

DoDi

I am interested in one that parses the source code rather than the executable. Can some development related utility find all the string literals and print out their line numbers?

sed -n "/'/=" source.pas

sed -n "/'/{=;p}" source.pas

sed -n "/'/{=;s/[^']*\('[^']*'\)[^']*/||| \1 /gp}" source.pas

I could go on and on...

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html

Have fun. Sed is like the antithesis of elegance.

~David.

That has all been done, have a look at dxgettext.

Frank Church wrote

Is there a tool to list all the string literals in your application?

You might want to look at Pascal Analyzer. I think one of its tools lists all strings (Literal Strings Report). See here: http://www.peganza.com/PALHelp/index.html?identifiers_report.htm

Thierry.

Frank Church wrote

Is there a tool to list all the string literals in your application?

What about "code explorer"? It has a secion code observer, which has unnamed constants.
It's not only strings, true, it's other types too. But it is easy to distinguish the strings.

Also it only shows strings that are not constants. But if you have any constants, with sting data, you just need to also look at your constant sections.

Martin