The background is that I have a complicated memory issue in Delphi. But a theory is that an enum of 5 values can be the root of the bug. So my question to you is:
How do I write a regexpression to search sourcefiles for an enum with 5 values ? An enum in Delphi looks like this
myEnum = (value1,value2,value3,value4,value5);
There can of course be any combination of spaces, tabs and newlines between the values.
this should give you all the lines you are searching for in your files:
perl -n -e 'if ($_ =~ m/\W*\w+\W*=\W*\(\W*\w+\W*,\W*\w+\W*,\W*\w+\W*,\W*\w+\W*,\W*\w+\W*\)\W*;/) { print $_; }'
just parse all you delphi source files through this perl one liner.
some more explanations:
\W => means non-word character\w => means alphanumerical character including underscore+ => at least one occurrence* => zero or more occurrence$_ => current line of which will be filled by -nhope this helps.
