SLOC script to report Number of lines Added, deleted & modified

[Anonymous Monk]

Dear Monks, Can you please help me to generate Added, Deleted & Modified Lines of Code report for two versions of file. I tried implement the same using unix diff utility, but it is not giving expected results. Regards, Janshi.VBP

[dHarry]

You could try your luck with Perl version of 'diff'?.

[MidLifeXis]

Please explain what results you expect, how you were generating the report, and what results you were getting.

[goibhniu]

Don't reinvent the wheel; there are traps in tryign to do this yourself from scratch. I swear I found SLOC in a cpan module once, but I can't seem to find it now. If I come up with a productive search term I'll re-reply.

update: Text::Diff

Here's another free tool that promises alot, though I haven't tried it myself:
SLOCCount

[jasonk]

NAME
       diffstat - make histogram from diff-output

USAGE
       diffstat [options] [file-specifications]

SYNOPSIS
       This  program  reads the output of diff and displays a histogra
+m of the
       insertions, deletions, and modifications per-file.

DESCRIPTION
       Diffstat is a program that is useful for reviewing large, compl
+ex patch
       files.  It reads from one or more input files which contain out
+put from
       diff, producing a histogram of the total lines changed  for  ea
+ch  file
       referenced.   If the input filename ends with .bz2, .Z or .gz, 
+diffstat
       will read the uncompressed data via a pipe.