Searchcode Is a Valuable Resource for Developers
July 28, 2014
Here is a useful tool that developers will want to bookmark: searchcode does just what its name suggests—paste in a snippet of code, and it returns real-world examples of its use in context. Great for programming in an unfamiliar language, working to streamline code, or just seeing how other coders have approached a certain function. The site’s About page explains:
“Searchcode is a free source code and documentation search engine. API documentation, code snippets and open source (free software) repositories are indexed and searchable. Most information is presented in such a way that you shouldn’t need to click through, but can if required.”
Searchcode pulls its samples from Github, Bitbucket, Google Code, Codeplex, Sourceforge, and the Fedora Project. There is a way to search using special characters, and users can filter by programming language, repository, or source. The tool is the product of one Sydney-based developer, Ben E. Boyter, and is powered by open-source indexer Sphinx Search. Many, many more technical details about searchcode can be found at Boyter’s blog.
Cynthia Murrell, July 28, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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Hey thanks for the write up about searchcode! If you ever want more information about it let me know and I will be happy to let you know.
We stumbled over here by a different web address and thought I might check things out.
I like what I see so i am just following you. Look forward to going
over your web page again.