Does anyone know of a tool that I can use to find explicit C-style casts in code? I am refactoring some C++ code and want to replace C-style casts where ever possible.
An example C-style cast would be:
Foo foo = (Foo) bar;
In contrast examples of C++ style casts would be:
Foo foo = static_cast<Foo>(bar);
Foo foo = reinterpret_cast<Foo>(bar);
Foo foo = const_cast<Foo>(bar);
If you're using gcc/g++, just enable a warning for C-style casts:
g++ -Wold-style-cast ...
If you use some kind of hungarian style notation (e.g. iInteger, pPointer etc.) then you can search for e.g. )p and ) p and so on.
It should be possible to find all those places in reasonable time even for a large code base.
I used this regular expression in Visual Studio (2010) Find in files search box: :i\):i
Thanks to sth for the inspiration (his post)