Weekend prototype #1 C/C++ Enum Parsing

This weekend I prototyped a command line tool written in Lua for parsing C/C++ files to get a list of enums used in the codebase that has been parsed.

Once the codebase has been parsed, the tool will create a new header file (or rewrite an existing one) and save all exported enums as string arrays.

Consider the following C/C++ Header:

 #ifndef _Transform_h_  
 #define _Transform_h_  
 class Transform {  
    enum TransformSource {  
      TS_NONE = 0,  
      TS_PARENT,  
      TS_SCENE,  
      TS_COUNT  
    };   
    Transform();  
    ~Transform();  
    //etc...  
 };  
 #endif //_Transform_h_  

If this file would serve as input to the enum parsing tool, the tool would create the following output:

 const char* TransformSourceStr[] = {  
    "TS_NONE",  
    "TS_PARENT",  
    "TS_SCENE",  
    "TS_COUNT"  
 };   

More informations about the tool and the source code can be found in the BitBucket repository.