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Perl script optimization
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sleipnir214
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Sounds to me like you need a perl script.![[wink]](/data/assets/smilies/wink.gif "[wink] [wink]")
A perl script to do that should not be that hard to write. I'd do it in two passes.
On the first pass, I'd remove all comments, any whitespace that appears at the beginning of each line, and any whitespace on either side of a parenthesis or math symbol.
On the second pass I'd remove any hard return that does not appear inside quotes.
Perl's very forgiving about whitespace in source code, but I would keep a copy of the original in a safe place.
A perl script to do that should not be that hard to write. I'd do it in two passes.
On the first pass, I'd remove all comments, any whitespace that appears at the beginning of each line, and any whitespace on either side of a parenthesis or math symbol.
On the second pass I'd remove any hard return that does not appear inside quotes.
Perl's very forgiving about whitespace in source code, but I would keep a copy of the original in a safe place.
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get TextPad from and you can run regular expression straight from the find/replace box. Not PCRE 
but a variation on it.
V useful to any coder (syntax highlighting too --BB
but a variation on it.V useful to any coder (syntax highlighting too
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