programming/tads2/utils/untads.pl

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# untads -- Extract user-readable text from TADS source files
# for spell-checking or proofreading

# by Matthew Amster-Burton, mamster@u.washington.edu
# Last revision: 0.2, 11/4/96
# placed in the public domain

# usage:
# untads file.t > output.txt
# OR untads file.t | spell

$/ = 0777;

while( <> ) {                  # Actually slurping whole file
   s#/\*.*\*/##gs;             # Kill C comments
   s#//.*\n#\n#g;              # Kill C++ comments
   s/<<.*?>>//g;               # Kill variable includes
   s/%\w+%//g;                 # Kill format strings
   s/\\'/##apostrophe##/g;
   s/\\./ /g;                  # Kill escape sequences (and apostrophes...)
   s/\n[\t ]+/\n/g;            # Kill line indents
   while( /'([^']*)'|"([^"]*)"/go ) { # q// or qq//
      $tmp = $1 . $2;
      $tmp =~ s/##apostrophe##/'/;
      print "$tmp\n";
   }
}



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.TH UNTADS 1 "November 29, 1995"
.AT 3
.SH NAME
untads \- whatever
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B untads [options] [files]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I untads
extracts user-visible text from a TADS code (.t) file.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
No environment variables are used.
.SH FILES
None.
.SH AUTHOR
Matthew Amster
.SH "SEE ALSO"

.SH DIAGNOSTICS

.SH BUGS
Takes a bunch o' memory.