%MKCONTNT Make new contents.m file in the current working directory % %Copies the H1 line (first comment line) of all m-files found %in the current working directory to a file named "contents.m". %If such a file already exists, a backup copy of it is made to %"contents.old". % %For example, if the user has written several m-files %in the directory C:\MATLAB\MY_MFILES, he needs to make this the %current working directory (using either CD or the path browser) %and then type "mkcontnt" at the Matlab prompt. % %It is important to note that any fancy editing done to a previous %version of contents.m will be lost. Only the top two lines from the %old version are copied to the new version, but that number can easily %be increased by minor modifications to the code. Use the top few %lines of your contents.m files to describe in general terms what kinds %of tasks are performed by your m-files. % %Take the habit of writing informative H1 lines!!! %Tested with Matlab 5.2.1 for Windows 95 % %Author: Denis Gilbert, Ph.D., physical oceanography %Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada %email: gilbertd@dfo-mpo.gc.ca %August 1998; Last revision: December 07, 1998 disp(['Creating contents.m in ' pwd]) %Check if a contents.m file already exists in the current directory if exist([pwd filesep 'contents.m'])==0 % Contents.m does not exist in pwd line1 = '%Write text describing the m-files in this directory'; line2 = '%Write text describing the m-files in this directory (continued)'; else %Open current version of contents.m and save its first two lines fid=fopen('contents.m','r'); line1=fgetl(fid); line2=fgetl(fid); fclose(fid); %Make backup copy before deleting contents.m copyfile('contents.m','contents.old'); delete contents.m %Delete current version of contents.m end files = what; % Structure with fields files.m, files.mat, etc. %Note: the field files.m does not include contents.m (IMPORTANT) %Do not displace this line of code above or below its present location %to avoid error messages. if length(files.m)==0 warning('No m-files found in this directory') return end blank_line = '% '; %Blank line fcontents = fopen('contents.m','w'); %Write a new version of contents.m fprintf(fcontents,'%s\n',line1); %Copy descriptive header text from previous version fprintf(fcontents,'%s\n',line2); %Copy descriptive header text (continued) fprintf(fcontents,'%s\n',blank_line);%Third line is blank %Make sure all file names are in lowercase to allow proper alphabetical sorting files.m = lower(files.m); files.m = sort(files.m); %Sort filenames in alphabetical order %Write H1 lines to contents.m if they exist for i = 1:length(files.m) fid=fopen(files.m{i},'r'); %Cell array of sorted file names %Search for first commented line (H1 line) count_percent = 0; while count_percent < 1 & feof(fid)==0; %True as long as we do not encounter a line with a "%" sign %or reach the end of file line = fgetl(fid); if length(line) > 0 %Allow for possibility that some lines may be empty if ~isempty(findstr(line,'%')) %LOOK for percent sign anywhere in the line count_percent = count_percent + 1; fprintf(fcontents,'%s\n',line); %Write H1 line to contents.m end end if feof(fid)==1 %End of file encountered without finding a single percent sign fprintf(fcontents,'%s\n',blank_line); %Write blank line to contents.m end end fclose(fid); end fclose(fcontents);