#6 NOT count curly brackets in cloc

[Anonymous]

If I do not want to count open and closing curly brackets such as "{" and "}" in C and C++ source file, can I tell cloc to do that by modifying the lang filter definition? Does cloc (v1.60) support this feature? Thank you.

[Anonymous]

I mean I do not want to count the line that contains only open and closing curly brackets such as "{" and "}" in C and C++ source file

[Al Danial]

Yes, that's possible. Include this line in your custom language definition file for C:

filter remove_matches ^\s*[{}]\s*$

[Anonymous]

• Could you please explain for this filter: filter remove_matches ? What does it mean for ^\s, [{}], \s$?
• Can I add several filter remove_matches for a specific language such as:
  filter remove_matches ^\s//
  filter remove_matches ^\s{\s//
  filter remove_matches ^\s[{}]\s*$
• What does it mean for filter remove_inline //.*$?