Software Tools in <X>

Jez Higgins, [email protected]

Reimplementing the programs described in Kernighan and Plauger's Software Tools in Pascal in other languages.

C++

Chapter 1 - Getting Started

1. copy
2. charcount
3. linecount
4. wordcount
5. detab

Chapter 2 - Filters

1. entab
2. overstrike
3. compress
4. expand
5. echo
6. translit

Chapter 3 - Files

1. compare
2. include
3. concat
4. print
5. makecopy
6. archive - create, contents, delete, print, update, extract

Chapter 4 - Sorting

1. bubble sort
2. Shell sort
3. in-memory sort
4. quick sort, parts one and two
5. external sort
6. unique
7. kwic and unrotate

Chapter 5 - Text Patterns

1. find
2. change

Chapter 6 - Editing

1. edit

Chapter 7 - Formatting

1. format + with a postscript on text justification

Chapter 8 - Macro Processing

The whole of chapter 8 concerns writing macro, a macro processor

• macro - simple text replacement
• text replacement with arguments
• evaluating macros wherever they occur
• ... more to come ...

License

Copyright 2019-2025 JezUK Ltd

Licensed under the terms of the MIT License.