Splitting a long line.

[David Buddrige]

Hi all,

I have a group of C++ source files where I have the following text on a single Lines:

class MyReallyLongClassNameThatIsTooLongToFitInEightyCharacters : public SomeClassTemplate<InstantiatedDataType>

What I want to do is to split this line at the ":" so that everything after the colon appears on the next line (indented 4 characters) like so:

class MyReallyLongClassNameThatIsTooLongToFitInEightyCharacters
: public SomeClassTemplate<InstantiatedDataType>


I have written the following code:

while(<>)
{
$code_line = $_;
$length_of_codeline = length( $code_line );
if ( $length_of_codeline > 80 )
{
if ( $code_line =~ m|class(\s)+([a-zA-z])+(\w)*(\s)+:(\s)+public(\s)+([a-zA-z])+(\w)*<[a-zA-Z](\w)+>| )
{
# At this point, I know I've found the line, I need to
# split it somehow.
}
}
}

This code identifies the line in question, but having done so, I am not sure how to split it into two lines (at the colon). Can anyone suggest how I'd do that?

thanks heaps guys

David Buddrige. 8-)


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