* help: generate help texts from text file / awk

mu/mu-help-strings.awk

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+## Copyright (C) 2012 Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+## (at your option) any later version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+## Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+
+
+## convert text blobs statements into c-strings
+
+BEGIN {
+	in_def=0;
+	in_string=0;
+#	srand();
+#	guard=int(100000*rand());
+#	print "#ifndef __" guard "__"
+	print "/* Do not edit - auto-generated. */"
+	print "static const struct {"
+	print "\tMuConfigCmd cmd;"
+	print "\tconst char *usage;"
+	print "\tconst char *long_help;"
+	print "} MU_HELP_STRINGS[] = {"
+}
+
+
+/^#BEGIN/ {
+	print "\t{ " $2 ","    # e.g., MU_CONFIG_CMD_ADD
+	in_def=1
+}
+
+/^#STRING/ {
+	if (in_def== 1) {
+		if (in_string==1) {
+			print ",";
+		}
+		in_string=1
+	}
+}
+
+/^#END/ {
+	if (in_string==1) {
+		in_string=0;
+	}
+	in_def=0;
+	print "\n\t},\n"
+}
+
+
+!/^#/  {
+	if (in_string==1) {
+		printf "\n\t\"" $0 "\\n\""
+	}
+}
+
+
+END {
+	print "};"
+#	print "#endif /*" guard "*/"
+	print "/* the end */"
+}