Determining what code exists outside of class/function?

[mvidberg]

I need some code that given a PHP file can return all the lines of code that exist OUTSIDE of a class, function or comment. I was thinking about just reading in the entire file into a string and performing a regexp but not sure what that regexp would look like. Any suggestions on the best way to accomplish this?

[NogDog]

You'll probably have to do something with regexp recursion on curly braces within a class definition to replace each class definition with an empty string, thus leaving the remaining text to be all the code not within class definitions.

Possibly easier, depending on what you need this for, is to simply open the file in an editor that does "code folding", search on each instance of "class", and fold that class definition. 🙂