It scans all files in current folder and with a specified extensions and changes anything between #ifdef PERL_SOURCE and #endif into a construct that C compiler will correctly understand as a string which may be fed to a perl-calling function.
<CODE> use strict; my @manifest; my $recurse=0; for (@ARGV) { if (/^-M(.*)$/) { push @manifest, $1; } elsif (s/^-r$//) {$recurse=1} elsif (s/^-R$//) {$recurse=0} } my @files = (); sub getf { my ($p) = @_; my @res = (); opendir FDIR, $p; for (readdir FDIR) { next if /^\.*$/; if (-f "$p/$_") {push @res,"$p/$_"} elsif (-d "$p/$_") {push @res,getf("$p/$_")} } closedir FDIR; return @res; } if ($recurse) { my @f; for (@ARGV) { s/\/\\+$//; if (/^(.*?)\\\/(^\\\/+)$/) { my ($path, $patt) = ($1,$2); push @f, getf($path); $patt =~ s/(.+)/\\$1/g; $patt =~ s/\?/./g; $patt =~ s/\*/(?:.*?)/g; push @files, grep {/\/\\$patt$/} @f; } elsif (-f) { push @files, $_; } } } else { push @files, @ARGV; } for (@manifest) { open FIN, "<$_"; push @files, grep {!/^#/ and !/^\s*$%2

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