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Re: What's Wrong With This HTML Code?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:28 pm

klr wrote:That list of "supporting software" is incomplete. Almost all programming/HTML editors should support regular expressions, either out of the box, or via plugins.
I quite like Textpad, but it hasn't been updated since 2009. I haven't looked to see if it does regular expressions.
It also doesn't cover programming language support for regular expressions, which is very widespread. There could be situations where that would come in very handy indeed.
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Re: What's Wrong With This HTML Code?

Post by klr » Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:33 pm

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klr wrote:That list of "supporting software" is incomplete. Almost all programming/HTML editors should support regular expressions, either out of the box, or via plugins.
I quite like Textpad, but it hasn't been updated since 2009. I haven't looked to see if it does regular expressions.
The computer says "yes":

http://www.textpad.com/products/textpad/features.html
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It also doesn't cover programming language support for regular expressions, which is very widespread. There could be situations where that would come in very handy indeed.
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Re: What's Wrong With This HTML Code?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:39 pm

Yeah, I noted the tick box in the search pop-up.

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Re: What's Wrong With This HTML Code?

Post by Pappa » Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:06 pm

Zilla, Textpad has an excellent regular expression engine. When I've tidied up hundreds of files in the past, I usually do it in small steps on all the files simultaneously, checking I haven't fucked anything up as I go along. It's probably best you only work on open files at first, so you can undo any changes if required.

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Re: What's Wrong With This HTML Code?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:09 pm

Pappa wrote:Zilla, Textpad has an excellent regular expression engine. When I've tidied up hundreds of files in the past, I usually do it in small steps on all the files simultaneously, checking I haven't fucked anything up as I go along. It's probably best you only work on open files at first, so you can undo any changes if required.
I mostly want to get table cells to be on one line so I can do the indexing easier. Right now it's del/backspace/del/backspace, and so on.

And I'd also like to automate the blank space removal around the ">" and "<".
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Re: What's Wrong With This HTML Code?

Post by Pappa » Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:18 pm

To get table cells on one line:

Search:

/td>\s*\n?\s*<td

Replace:

/td><td

That should catch most of them.

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Re: What's Wrong With This HTML Code?

Post by Pappa » Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:21 pm

Careful trimming whitespace after a >. You might remove spaces between words unintentionally.

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Re: What's Wrong With This HTML Code?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:26 pm

Pappa wrote:Careful trimming whitespace after a >. You might remove spaces between words unintentionally.
How about I just remove whitespace between > and < ?
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Re: What's Wrong With This HTML Code?

Post by Pappa » Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:23 pm

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Pappa wrote:Careful trimming whitespace after a >. You might remove spaces between words unintentionally.
How about I just remove whitespace between > and < ?
Nope. That's where the space you want to keep could be.

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Re: What's Wrong With This HTML Code?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:38 pm

Pappa wrote:
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Pappa wrote:Careful trimming whitespace after a >. You might remove spaces between words unintentionally.
How about I just remove whitespace between > and < ?
Nope. That's where the space you want to keep could be.
But if there's nothing but whitespace between them? </td> ..........</tr>, where the dots are whitespaces?
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Re: What's Wrong With This HTML Code?

Post by Pappa » Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:36 pm

If it's only between the various table tags, that'll be fine, but don't do it for inline text tags.

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Re: What's Wrong With This HTML Code?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:50 pm

Pappa wrote:If it's only between the various table tags, that'll be fine, but don't do it for inline text tags.
I'll have to find that regex and see what it can do. :plot:
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Re: What's Wrong With This HTML Code?

Post by Pappa » Sat Feb 16, 2013 1:16 am

You can install HTML Tidy as a Textpad addon. It will do a fair bit of the work for you.

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Re: What's Wrong With This HTML Code?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Feb 16, 2013 3:46 am

Pappa wrote:You can install HTML Tidy as a Textpad addon. It will do a fair bit of the work for you.
Except it don't work.
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Re: What's Wrong With This HTML Code?

Post by Jason » Sat Feb 16, 2013 4:12 am

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