Automatically reformatting code?

[cpjust]

Hi,
I know eclipse can do this, but I'm not sure if Visual C++ 2005 can do it?

I have a bunch of old .c files that use that ugly type of formatting:

if (a==b) {
   if (c==d) {
      blah();
   }
}

which I want to convert to this more readable format:

if ( a == b )
{
   if ( c == d )
   {
      blah();
   }
}

Can I do this with VC++ 2005 or do I need to use some other tool?

 

[xwb]

On VC++, you can reindent the code but it won't rearrange the brackets for you. If it did, it would annoy most people.

There is a public domain pretty printer on Linux called indent but I don't know if there is a windows equivalent of it.

 

[ArkM]

See

http://freedownloads.rbytes.net/cat/development/c-all/c++-code-export/

http://astyle.sourceforge.net/

I never used this software.
There are tons of shareware formatters for C and C++, search INET.

Apropos, it's one of common indentation styles (I don't like it too...

 

[xwb]

I used to code like that as you could see more code on a 25 line terminal. Nowadays, you can see more than 40 lines in one go so I don't mind either way.

 

[Salem]

GNU indent is also available via the cygwin port.


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