On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:56:17 +0100 Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org> wrote: > Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> writes: > > That's just swamped by licences, as would be received and lots of other > > common words (which are, rightly or wrongly, used as variable names or > > as part of function names). > Well, of course searching for common words will result in a lot of > results. Asking the other way around: What is your expected result for > something like "modify", even if comments were ignored? function names and variables which contain the word modify... bytes_received could be a very common variable, but it could also be bytesReceived or received_bytes depending on the convention. It's just the kind of thing to search for buffer overflows.... My own initial query was QofBook. http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=QofBook+filetype%3Ac http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=QofBook+filetype%3Ac+package%3Aqof Any variable/class which is used as a base struct/class across a library or which is contained within a lot of other structs in a library is going to come up again and again in documentation comments and in class/struct definitions. > > http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=codehelp+filetype%3Aperl > > > > filetype:perl just doesn't seem to be working: > > http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=QofBook+filetype%3Aperl > > ... lists a lot of .c files ... > > > > filetype:python does the same - some .py but then a lot more .c > Thanks, this is fixed now. Now it's missing known hits: http://codesearch.debian.net/search?skip=17&q=noauth+filetype%3Aperl Should find listings in multistrap, which this search finds: http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=noauth+package%3Amultistrap Just because a file doesn't end in .pl, doesn't mean it isn't perl - Policy mandates that perl in /usr/bin does not end in .pl Is this only finding perl modules and perl scripts in /usr/share? That's a bigger problem than the extra listings for comments. e.g. http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=codehelp+filetype%3Aperl Now lists lots of .pm and .pl files but nothing else. dpkg-cross is listed as a .pm but not as the executable dpkg-cross. wrap-lintian.pl is listed but not multistrap. Grip.pm is listed but not emgrip. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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