Re: Search within function for text

[Tassilo Horn]

Glen Stark <mail@glenstark.net> writes:

Hi Glen,

> I would like to find all occurences of a bit of text that fall within
> a certain function name.  I'm programming in C++, and several classes
> have their own implementations of foo(), and I'd like to find all
> occurrences of the string "bar" within functions named "foo()".

At least you can't do that with regular expressions but you need to
something which actually understands C++ syntax.

> Does anyone know of a way I can do this?

Have a look at CEDET.  Assuming foo is not just a string but a variable
or function, `semantic-symref' might do exactly what you want:

  http://cedet.sourceforge.net/symref.shtml

Bye,
Tassilo