Re: How to remove comments with grep?
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texte = >>Kenneth Grome wrote: >>My original webdna template file has a lot of webdna comments in >>it. I want to remove all these comments when writing this file to a >>new file. >> >>You cannot, at least not with grep alone. You need an actual >>parser (finite state machine actually) to correctly handle either >>WebDNA or HTML comments. > >Thanks John. It looks like I need a different solution than webdna ... ;) ... and I found it!It only took me about 20 minutes to find an AppleScript that does something similar to this. I just duplicated it and modified it, and now I have a new script that removes my WebDNA comments.I wrote another AppleScript that removes all the CR's as well. The only place this one cannot be used is in templates where I have used CR's inside a writefile context, for example -- but that's easily remedied by using [unurl]%0D[/unurl] instead of a CR ... ;)So now my files can easily be stripped down to the bare minimum size before I upload them to the server. -- Sincerely, Kenneth GromePS: My email address is kengrome@softhome.net until further notice.------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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>>Kenneth Grome wrote: >>My original webdna template file has a lot of webdna comments in >>it. I want to remove all these comments when writing this file to a >>new file. >> >>You cannot, at least not with grep alone. You need an actual >>parser (finite state machine actually) to correctly handle either >>WebDNA or HTML comments. > >Thanks John. It looks like I need a different solution than webdna ... ;) ... and I found it!It only took me about 20 minutes to find an AppleScript that does something similar to this. I just duplicated it and modified it, and now I have a new script that removes my WebDNA comments.I wrote another AppleScript that removes all the CR's as well. The only place this one cannot be used is in templates where I have used CR's inside a writefile context, for example -- but that's easily remedied by using [unurl]%0D[/unurl] instead of a CR ... ;)So now my files can easily be stripped down to the bare minimum size before I upload them to the server. -- Sincerely, Kenneth GromePS: My email address is kengrome@softhome.net until further notice.------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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