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Resolved Extract all source code from a workspace

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  1. William Kotaska
    William Kotaska
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. Wednesday, 9 June 2021 16:30 PM UTC

Greetings,

 

My boss has requested that I extract all of the source code from a PowerBuilder application to a separate single file for him to review.  Does PowerBuilder have an option or a utility application to extract all the source code from a workspace?

 

Thanks,

 

Bill

 

 

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Miguel Leeuwe
Miguel Leeuwe Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Thursday, 10 June 2021 14:46 PM UTC
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  3. # 1

Another great (and free) tool you could use is "pblpeeper".

https://pbl-peeper.software.informer.com/

 

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Benjamin Gaesslein
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  1. Thursday, 10 June 2021 08:17 AM UTC
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Hi William,

1. run cmd

2. cd to the root folder of your workspace

2. use this command:

for /F "usebackq" %f in ( `dir /b /s *.sr*` ) do type "%f" >> output.txt

 

This will write the contents of all PB source files to output.txt.

[If you're for some reason not using source control, you'll have to export all sources from the PBLs first in order for this to work.]

Of course, "reviewing" the code this way is still a rather quixotic endeavour. But there you have it. :)

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René Ullrich
  1. René Ullrich
  2. Thursday, 10 June 2021 08:23 AM UTC
Only works if objects are already exported (e.g. if workspace is under source control)!
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Benjamin Gaesslein
  1. Benjamin Gaesslein
  2. Thursday, 10 June 2021 08:25 AM UTC
Correct; otherwise the sources will have to be exported first.
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Chris Pollach @Appeon
Chris Pollach @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Wednesday, 9 June 2021 18:05 PM UTC
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Hi William;

  Another alternative suggestion to what Roland's great advice was about using Native Source Control is to use the Visual Expert product for this task ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Expert

Regards ... Chris

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Miguel Leeuwe
  1. Miguel Leeuwe
  2. Thursday, 10 June 2021 14:43 PM UTC
I think Roland also suggested to use Visual Expert.

regards.
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Roland Smith
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  1. Wednesday, 9 June 2021 16:44 PM UTC
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PBNative Source Control will export all the objects into individual files. There are LibraryDirectory and LibraryExport functions that could be used to create a specialized app to export all objects into one file.

This seems like a waste of his time and yours. Depending on the size of the applications and how many hours a day he spends on reviewing, it could take months or years to look at every line of code.

Is there something specific he is looking for? Perhaps a tool like Visual Expert would be a good idea.

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