Generating instructions for drawing a flowchart

A method for generating a source code text file from a flowchart comprising:

• assigning a shape name to each shape appearing on the flowchart, wherein the shape name is a statement number assigned to a first statement within the shape, and wherein each shape name is less than all subsequent shape names;
• ending each source code statement within each of the shapes with a statement end character;
• writing the statements contained within each shape to an ordered array with the associated shape names;
• ordering the array from the least shape name to the highest shape name;
• and
• writing each line of the ordered array to a text file.

A computer program product for generating flowcharting instructions from a source code comprising:

• loading instructions for loading source code statements into statement records of a data structure, wherein each statement record contains only one of the source code statements;
• identifying instructions for identifying each branch statement contained in the statement records;
• determining instructions for determining one or more branch destinations for each of the branch statements;
• storing instructions for storing the one or more branch destinations in one or more destination records of the data structure, wherein the one or more destination records correspond to the statement record of the branch statement;
• and
• identifying instructions for identifying a statement type for each statement contained in the statement records.