Code-Reading Tools

• Typical Tasks
• Regular Expressions
• Regular Expression Symbols
• Character Classes
• The Editor as a Code Browser
• Code Searching with grep
• Locating File Differences
• Roll Your Own Tool: Implementation Options
• Choosing an Implementation
• A Simple Grep Program in Java ...
• ... And its Equivalent in Perl
• Tool Building Advice
• Example: Signature Survey
• Using the Compiler
• Compiler Warning Messages
• The Compiler as a Code-Reading Tool
• Code Browsers
• Code Browsers in OO
• Beautifiers
• Runtime Tools
• Drawing Diagrams
• Lab Tasks (Java)
• Lab Tasks (Unix)
• Further Reading
• Exercises and Discussion Topics

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