Visual Studio has a nice feature to calculate the Lines of Code (LOC) in source files. But do you know that you can also use Notepad++ to find the Lines of Code (LOC) in your source files in a directory? Here we will show you how to do it.
To find the LOC of your source files using Notepad++, you can follow the steps mentioned below:
- Open your Notepad++ instance.
- Press CTRL + SHIFT + F to open the "Find in Files" dialog.
- In the "Find what" input box, enter "\S+\s*$" as the regular expression to find out the lines containing some text.
- Select the "Directory" for which you want to search.
- Under the "Search Mode" section, select the "Regular expression" checkbox.
- Finally, click on the "Find All" button to start the search.
- Once the search completes, check the search result in the "Find result" panel to get the total LOC.
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