Patent ID: 7627851

Claim:
Modification method for modifying a source code saved in a computer unit, wherein potential modification locations of the source code to be modified are already pre-defined by means of comment markers in the source code to be modified, wherein in the course of the further method, the following steps are performed, one after the other: read-out of the source code to be modified, by means of a parser, automatic recognition of the comment markers contained in the source code to be modified, by means of the parser, said comment markers being assigned to potential modification locations of the source code to be modified, automatic generation of an input panel having input fields for input of the data required for modifying the source code, and their display on a display device for entering the data requested from a user by means of the input panel, automatic modification of the source code as a function of the data obtained from the user by means of the input panel, by means of a set of rules individually assigned to the comment marker, in each instance, and wherein the following steps of the modification method run automatically by means of the parser: opening the source code to be modified, reading the source code to be modified into a segment of a working memory of the computer unit being used, currently assigned to the parser, in each instance, saving a back-up copy of the source code to be modified in a segment of the hard drive or another memory of the computer unit, assigned to the parser, in each instance, automatically finding the comment markers placed in the source code to be modified, by means of the special comment characters that introduce these comment markers, in each instance, automatically recognizing the type of the comment marker by means of key words or key characters contained in the comment markers, in each instance, assigning the comment marker, in each instance, to the sections of the source code to be modified, by the references to the source code to be modified contained in the comment marker, in each instance, evaluating the input rules contained in the comment marker, in each instance, particularly with regard to the value range of variables and/or the permissible extensions of file names, automatically generating an input panel with at least one input window, reading the values from the source code to be modified, in each instance, into a temporary memory of the computer unit, taking the data obtained from the user by means of the input panel over into this temporary memory, overwriting the locations to be modified in the source code by means of the current content of the temporary memory, and returning the modified source code to the data carrier of the computer unit.