How to get location of the code snippets in C++?

Question

I have cpp codes of version A and version B, In version B, I have code snippets under these comment tags like

//B specific - START
..something here..
//B specific - END

I want to extract B specific code snippets and place them at appropriate location in Version A. For this, I want to extract location of the B Specific Code Snippets. Is there any algorithm ?

For Example VersionA.cpp

// Program to print all combination of size r in an array of size n
#include <stdio.h>
void combinationUtil(int arr[], int data[], int start, int end, 
                    int index, int r);

// The main function that prints all combinations of size r
// in arr[] of size n. This function mainly uses combinationUtil()
void printCombination(int arr[], int n, int r)
{
    // A temporary array to store all combination one by one
    int data[r];
    int data[m];
    // Print all combination using temprary array 'data[]'
    combinationUtil(arr, data, 0, n-1, 0, r);
}

/* arr[] ---> Input Array
data[] ---> Temporary array to store current combination
start & end ---> Staring and Ending indexes in arr[]
index ---> Current index in data[]
r ---> Size of a combination to be printed */
void combinationUtil(int arr[], int data[], int start, int end,
                    int index, int r)
{
    // Current combination is ready to be printed, print it
    if (index == r)
    {
        for (int j=0; j<r; j++)
            printf("%d ", data[j]);
        printf("\n");
        return;
    }

    // replace index with all possible elements. The condition
    // "end-i+1 >= r-index" makes sure that including one element
    // at index will make a combination with remaining elements
    // at remaining positions
    for (int i=start; i<=end && end-i+1 >= r-index; i++)
    {
        int temp;
        data[index] = arr[i];
        combinationUtil(arr, data, i+1, end, index+1, r);
    }
}

// Driver program to test above functions
int main()
{
    int arr[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
    int r = 3;
    int n = sizeof(arr)/sizeof(arr[0]);
    printCombination(arr, n, r);
}

VersionB.cpp

// Program to print all combination of size r in an array of size n
#include <stdio.h>
//B specific - START
#include "...."
#include "...."
//B specific - END

void combinationUtil(int arr[], int data[], int start, int end, 
                     int index, int r);

// The main function that prints all combinations of size r
// in arr[] of size n. This function mainly uses combinationUtil()
void printCombination(int arr[], int n, int r)
{
    // A temporary array to store all combination one by one
    int data[r];
    //B specific - START
    ..something here..
    //B specific - END

    // Print all combination using temprary array 'data[]'
    combinationUtil(arr, data, 0, n-1, 0, r);
}

/* arr[]  ---> Input Array
   data[] ---> Temporary array to store current combination
   start & end ---> Staring and Ending indexes in arr[]
   index  ---> Current index in data[]
   r ---> Size of a combination to be printed */
void combinationUtil(int arr[], int data[], int start, int end,
                     int index, int r)
{
    // Current combination is ready to be printed, print it
    if (index == r)
    {
        for (int j=0; j<r; j++)
            printf("%d ", data[j]);
            //B specific - START
            ..something here..
            //B specific - END
        printf("\n");
        return;
    }

    // replace index with all possible elements. The condition
    // "end-i+1 >= r-index" makes sure that including one element
    // at index will make a combination with remaining elements
    // at remaining positions
    for (int i=start; i<=end && end-i+1 >= r-index; i++)
    {
        //B specific - START
        ..something here..
        //B specific - END
        data[index] = arr[i];
        combinationUtil(arr, data, i+1, end, index+1, r);
    }
}

// Driver program to test above functions
int main()
{
    int arr[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
    int r = 3;
    int n = sizeof(arr)/sizeof(arr[0]);
    printCombination(arr, n, r);
}

Output VersionA.cpp should be like this,

// Program to print all combination of size r in an array of size n
#include <stdio.h>
void combinationUtil(int arr[], int data[], int start, int end, 
                    int index, int r);

// The main function that prints all combinations of size r
// in arr[] of size n. This function mainly uses combinationUtil()
void printCombination(int arr[], int n, int r)
{
    // A temporary array to store all combination one by one
    int data[r];
    //B specific - START
    ..something here..
    //B specific - END
    int data[m];
    // Print all combination using temprary array 'data[]'
    combinationUtil(arr, data, 0, n-1, 0, r);
}

/* arr[] ---> Input Array
data[] ---> Temporary array to store current combination
start & end ---> Staring and Ending indexes in arr[]
index ---> Current index in data[]
r ---> Size of a combination to be printed */
void combinationUtil(int arr[], int data[], int start, int end,
                    int index, int r)
{
    // Current combination is ready to be printed, print it
    if (index == r)
    {
        for (int j=0; j<r; j++)
            printf("%d ", data[j]);
            //B specific - START
            ..something here..
            //B specific - END
        printf("\n");
        return;
    }

    // replace index with all possible elements. The condition
    // "end-i+1 >= r-index" makes sure that including one element
    // at index will make a combination with remaining elements
    // at remaining positions
    for (int i=start; i<=end && end-i+1 >= r-index; i++)
    {
        int temp;
        //B specific - START
        ..something here..
        //B specific - END
        data[index] = arr[i];
        combinationUtil(arr, data, i+1, end, index+1, r);
    }
}

// Driver program to test above functions
int main()
{
    int arr[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
    int r = 3;
    int n = sizeof(arr)/sizeof(arr[0]);
    printCombination(arr, n, r);
}

Answer 1

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