Executable Code Lines is one of the source-code metrics Understand computes across 17+ languages — browse them in the GUI, export and track them, or script them with the Python API.
Executable Code Lines
API ID: CountLineCodeExeLanguages: Ada, Assembly, C#, C++, Fortran, Java, Pascal, Python
Targets: Architectures, Classes, Files, Functions, Modules, Packages, Project, Subprograms
Number of lines containing executable source code.
For example:
void SayHello::printHello() {
switch (i) {
case 0:
cout << "Hello World" << endl;
case 1:
cout << "HELLO WORLD!" << endl;
default: // a comment here
for (int m = 0; m < j; m++);
cout << "hello world" << endl;
}
#ifdef A_VERY_NICE_VARIABLE
cout << "Inactive Line" << endl; // Inactive
#endif
}
Every code line except the function signature is executable: the switch, both cases, the default, the for loop, and the three cout statements (lines 12-19), for CountLineCodeExe = 8.
See Declarative Code Lines for the complementary breakdown, and Code Lines for the total.
Targets By Language:
- Ada: Project, File, Type, Entry, Function, Package, Procedure, Protected, Task
- C#: Project, File, Class, Method
- C++: Project, File, Class, Struct, Union, Function
- Fortran: Project, File, Module, Block Data, Function, Program, Subroutine
- Java: Project, File, Class, Interface, Method
- Pascal: Project, File, Class, Interface, Compunit, Function, Procedure
- Python: Project, File, Class, Function
- This metric can be disabled from "Project Configuration/Metrics/Lines and Statements" with the "Show line count metrics" option.