Question

I am pretty new to powershell.

Need help in writing a script to count the total number of lines in a visual studio project provided I ommit (ignore) the commented lines in the code. Eg: <‘> single quote as in vb.net. Whichever line is commented i.e begins with <‘> single quote I do not need to consider in the lines count of the file.

I’ve been successful so far in writing the script for counting the number of lines in a project based on the file types(say *.vb etc). like below

(dir -include *.cs,*.xaml -recurse | select-string .).Count

• I now need how can I ignore the line beginning with a single quote while counting?
• Could you suggest something i can include alongwith the above code line??

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Ashish

Answer 1

Try

(gc c:\file.vb | ? { !$_.startswith("'") }).count

Edit after comment:

try this:

dir c:\myfolder -include *.cs,*.xaml,*.txt -Recurse | % { $count = (gc $_ |  ? { $_ -notmatch '^\s*$|^''|/\*|\*/' }).count; if ($count) {write-host "$_ `tcount: $count"} }

this one count no empty lines, no line starting with ‘ and no lines containing /* or */.