Search for patterns in source code

I am using Visual Studio 6.0 and code is in C/C++. Commercial software with over 2000 source files scattered all over. Trying to get a handle on doing some estimates on various tasks.

Is there a way in VS6.0 that allows one to do "Find In Files..." with some complex search criteria?

For example, I would like to search for lines in files that contains the string "alloc" or "malloc" or "calloc" or "realloc" which does NOT contain the string "sizeof". Is there a way to do this?

I also would like to have a line count (how many lines are there in all these files when the search pattern matches), and a file count (how many files do these lines occured in).

If they can be configures to ignore lines that preceeds with "//" or in the middle of a /*...*/ block or even inside of a #if 0 ... #endif even better.

This is just one example, I need to do dozens of different searches to make an assessment on how bad the code is and decide whether we hack/patch or refactor or whatever.

Also we use CVS source code control which creates a admin directory with duplicate code that will double the count, is there a way to "include subfolder" but not to include subfolders of a specific name?

Thanks,

MC

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For example, I would like to search for lines in files that contains the string "alloc" or "malloc" or "calloc" or "realloc" which does NOT contain the string "sizeof". Is there a way to do this?

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Try grep or perl or something similar.

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I also would like to have a line count (how many lines are there in all these files when the search pattern matches), and a file count (how many files do these lines occured in).

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I'm pretty sure you can do that with grep/perl.

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If they can be configures to ignore lines that preceeds with "//" or in the middle of a /*...*/ block or even inside of a #if 0 ... #endif even better.

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That's easy, too, in perl.

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is there a way to "include subfolder" but not to include subfolders of a specific name?

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You should be able to manage that, too.

There is no way to do this within VS6? One benefit of doing it in that environment is I can pull up files selectively from the search results.

In my VS.NET's "Find In Files...," you could select whether to use Regular Expression. Consult the VS6 help file if you could do the same thing.