Question

I am refactoring a rather large body of code and a sort of esoteric question came to me while pondering where to go on with this. What this code needs in large parts is shortening of subs.

As such it would be very advantageous to point some sort of statistics collector at the directory, which would go through all the .pm, .cgi and .pl files, find all subs (i’m fine if it only gets the named ones) and gives me a table of all of them, along with their line count.

I gave PPI a cursory look, but could not find anything directly relevant, with some tools that might be appropiate, but rather complex to use.

Are there any easier modules that do something like this?

Failing that, how would you do this?

Edit:

Played around with PPI a bit and created a script that collects relevant statistics on a code base: http://gist.github.com/514512

Answer 1

my $document = PPI::Document->new($file);

# Strip out comments and documentation                                                                                                                                              
$document->prune('PPI::Token::Pod');
$document->prune('PPI::Token::Comment');

# Find all the named subroutines                                                                                                                                                    
my $sub_nodes = $document->find(
    sub { $_[1]->isa('PPI::Statement::Sub') and $_[1]->name } );

print map { sprintf "%s %s\n", $_->name, scalar split /\n/, $_->content } @$sub_nodes;