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tabcomment - Add comments to a table, or comment certain lines
tabcomment
in= out= [parameter=value]
tabcomment comments selected lines
of a text file.
A comment line is a line that starts with a # symbol, and
is recognized as such by many NEMO and other kind of programs.
Comment lines
can be selected as lines that are blank, start with an alpha or start with
punctuation ( in particular the functions isspace, isalpha and ispunct
from ctype(3)
are used to detect this, always skipping initial whitespace
of course) Individual control over each of these types can be given, see
below.
The following parameters are recognized in any order if
the keyword is also given:
- in=
- input ascii table. No Default.
- out=
- output
ascii table. No Default.
- alpha=t|f
- Comment lines that start with alpha? [Default:
t].
- blank=t|f
- Comment blank lines (lines that only contain blanks, see isspace)
[Default: t].
- punct=t|f
- Comment lines that start with a punctuation character
(neither control nor alphanumeric, see also ispunct). [Default: t].
- delete=t|f
- Delete comment lines from output? [Default: f].
- comment=
- The actual comment
character to be used at the beginning of the line. Although it is not adviced
to use anything but the ’#’ symbol, the comment characters. Default: #.
Peter Teuben
01-aug-92 V1.0 Created PJT
14-sep-92 V1.1 added delete=; also updated man PJT
20-may-93 updated man PJT
18-oct-04 V2.0 allow change of comment character PJT
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