indent utility help

[ezeke1]

I'm using the indent utility to reformat c source files and I notice that the options you provide to the utility affects the whole file. I'm wondering if its possible to only format certain sections of code instead of formatting all the code in the input file.

For example I have a source file called test.c with the following code

struct _MYSTRUCT {
int          i;
int          j;
}MYSTRUCT;

void main()
{
struct MYSTRUCT         ST;
}

After running this command

indent -i3 test.c

This is the reformatted source file

struct _MYSTRUCT {
int i;
int j;
}MYSTRUCT;

void main()
{
  struct MYSTRUCT ST;
}

There are multiple tabs after each of my variable declarations and I would like it to remain that way but after running this file through indent, I not only get the indents of 3 spaces that I ask for, but I also lose the tab spaces after the variable declarations. Is it possible to use indent the beginning of each line only?

Thank you in advance

 

[chipperMDW]

There may be a way to do what you want using indent, but I don't know it.

However, you may want to look into using a text editor like Vim or Emacs to format your code. Each of those has pretty powerful facilities for automatic indentation. It may require learning a new "language" to get the scheme you want, but it's probably possible to get them to automatically do virtually anything you want to do.

 

[PHV]

You may also consider the standard cb utility.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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