Website Design Hell

[hi19hi19]

Re: Website Design Hell

Day 2:

So I open up one of the existing pages to see if I can salvage any code. To my surprise the raw code is LITERALLY 10,000 lines long. Apparently whoever coded it decided putting 100 lines of blank space between each line of code was a great idea. Because you know that makes it more readable or something.

I have heard of a solution to this, I can just use find/replace with a regular expression to find all the line breaks and replace with \n!
WRONG.

The blank space is not actual line breaks, it's spaces. From the spacebar. Good old &# 32;
Which means somehow between each line of code is 100 lines worth of holding down the spacebar.

Yeah I don't know either.

[Mollocephalus]

Re: Website Design Hell

I'm not even into programming and i laughed my ass off imagining this person holding the spacebar for minutes... it's like those people who write "letter - space - letter - space - letter - space" cause they want their text to be wider

[Coolboyrulez0]

Re: Website Design Hell

Day 2:

So I open up one of the existing pages to see if I can salvage any code. To my surprise the raw code is LITERALLY 10,000 lines long. Apparently whoever coded it decided putting 100 lines of blank space between each line of code was a great idea. Because you know that makes it more readable or something.

I have heard of a solution to this, I can just use find/replace with a regular expression to find all the line breaks and replace with \n!
WRONG.

The blank space is not actual line breaks, it's spaces. From the spacebar. Good old &# 32;
Which means somehow between each line of code is 100 lines worth of holding down the spacebar.

Yeah I don't know either.

I can't breathe. Please keep a daily log of this because this is absolutely golden.

[gold stinger]

Re: Website Design Hell

golden man just golden

would probably take less time to make World Tour using just the .sm file and a notepad.

[Reincarnate]

Re: Website Design Hell

I hope you didn't fix that problem manually, hi19hi19 -- that can still be automated easy

[hi19hi19]

Re: Website Design Hell

I hope you didn't fix that problem manually, hi19hi19 -- that can still be automated easy

Oh? Teach me. The only way I could think of also got rid of spaces in between the actual code too...

But no I found a copy of the page in a different folder (lol) that had no extra lines. It had no indentation in the code (also lol) but that took like 4 minutes to fix manually instead of 4 days.

[UserNameGoesHere]

Re: Website Design Hell

Oh? Teach me. The only way I could think of also got rid of spaces in between the actual code too...

But no I found a copy of the page in a different folder (lol) that had no extra lines. It had no indentation in the code (also lol) but that took like 4 minutes to fix manually instead of 4 days.

If you have access to a UNIX-like environment, from a command shell type prompt, do

sed -e 's/  \+/ /g' bad.html > good.html

It is assumed bad.html is the name of the original too many spaces HTML file and you want extra spaces stripped down to just a single space. good.html will be the same except have this spaces problem fixed.

You have no idea how batty I went trying to get that to work because apparently I had to "escape" the + modifier because I guess the shell was interpreting it before passing it to sed ... or something. I'm like why won't this work? It's a simple substitution .. lol. ...Then I'm like hmm let me try escaping the + ... BAM worked.
There are two spaces after the s/ and one space before the /g

--edit--

If, instead, you wish to convert all instances of too many spaces into newlines (for example, there are only tons of spaces where newlines should be but not elsewhere) then do this instead

sed -e 's/  \+/\n/g' bad.html > good.html

--edit2--

And if you're editing the file on multiple machines/environments it's possible the line endings can get pretty strange. If that happens, any decent text editor should be able to fix this for you (You need one which lets you select between Windows, Linux, and Mac line ending types .. choose to convert all to, say, Windows line ending format) and save the file.