Software Tools in <X>

Jez Higgins, jez@jezuk.co.uk

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

• edit

Chapter 7 - Formatting

• 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

• filling out the macro set

• plugging in integer expressions to complete the processor

Epilogue

• It’s been lovely

License

Copyright 2019-2025 JezUK Ltd

Licensed under the terms of the MIT License.