From: "Thillai S." <thillaiselvan@...>
Date: 2010-12-31T13:40:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing the Ruby File

Ryan Davis wrote in post #971438:
> On Dec 30, 2010, at 2:56, "Thillai S." <thillaiselvan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> But I want to know the line number in which the sub routine is ending
>
> What are you actually trying to do?

Thanks for ur reply!

Say for example a sub routine definition is starting in the line number 
15
The end of the sub routine definition is there is some line x.
I want to know the line number x through a script.

Example

consider the ruby program

#!/usr/bin/ruby #first line of the program
#################################################################################
# DESCRIPTION         : xxxxxxxx
# AUTHOR              : yyyyyyyy
#################################################################################

  # a sample test function
  def test #8th line of the program
    xxxxxxxxxx;  #9th line
    yyyyyyyyyy;  #10th line
  end  #11th line -- function test ends here



Here the function test defition starts in the line number 8.
The ending line test function is 11.

The ctags -x <program_name>
will return the starting line number of the testing function like,
test     subroutine     8     file_name.pl    sub test()

So from the output of the ctags command I can get the line number of the 
test function definition starting.

Similarly I want to get the ending line number of the sub routine.

How can we achieve this?
Please help me...

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