CSCI 157: UNIX Power Utilities and Shell Programming

Laboratory Assignment 9

ASSIGNMENT DUE: see calendar on the web

1. TURN-IN a hard copy of the following:

On all homework please include

Your Name
Course Number
Date
ecst login name

No questions from the book this lab

These days it seems that a lot of things that were once done with "power tools" are now just done with perl.
The purpose of this assignment is to get introduced to PERL
TURN-IN printout of script
Have a soft copy on your ecst account so you can demo it

Pretty Print Script

This script is exactly like a 15B assignment I once did except in perl.
The program logic is easy to write and understand, figuring out how to do it in perl is the point of this assignment

For those that are already proficient in perl this should be a piece of cake. I suggest adding requirements to make it more interesting if this is the case.

This script takes an input file and then generates an output file.
The input file is a poorly indented .cpp file and the output file should be the same .cpp file except nicely indented.
My 15B assignment is provided here and in ~toddj/public_html/157/lab9/

Included is an executable that can give an example of desired output on any file.

Looking at the example input file and output file should make this assignment pretty clear.

The indentation is much nicer.

You will also notice that there is still plenty of room for improvement.

You may actually come accross code that is not indented in which case this script might actually come in handy. I did not believe that anyone would ever do such an evil thing like not indent their code until I came across it in code I had to maintain.
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