----- Original Message -----
From: Ryan Edgar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2004 3:05 pm
Subject: RE: Regex Help
> Yes I'm removing whitespace to reduce page size.
> I inherited a CF5 project with huge amounts of modules and
> includes and the
> whitespace generated was unbelieveable.
> The size of the page source alone on most pages was in and around
> 70k. When
> I removed the whitespace, this dropped to around 20k.
> The client has strict bandwidth utilisation rules, so anything I
> can do to
> drop the page size is important.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Ryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Doom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2004 2:24 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Regex Help
>
>
> With regular expressions, it tends to much, much harder to say "do
> thiswhen a condition is false" than "do this when a condition is
> true".
> One option that would at least fix the problem with the scripts
> (thoughnot the textareas or the PRE blocks) would be to replace
> [[:space:]]with a class of space and tab. This wouldn't remove
> line breaks.
>
> Peter's suggestion of searching through some regex libraries is a good
> one. You may find something you could modify.
>
> To get a better grip on the problem, can I ask why you're removing
> whitespace? Is this just to reduce page size? Or is there a reason
> I've overlooked?
>
> --Ben Doom
>
> Ryan Edgar wrote:
>
> > I've written a simple Regex to remove all the whitespace from my
> templates:
> >
> > <CFSET PageSource = REReplace(PageScource, "[[:space:]]{2,}", "
> ", "ALL")>
> >
> > The problem I'm having is if there is _javascript_ on a page and
> there are
> > inline comments, the _javascript_ won't work.
> >
> > alert('Hello'); // 1st line comment
> > alert('Is anyone there?'); // 2nd line comment
> >
> > becomes:
> >
> > alert('Hello'); // 1st line comment alert('Is anyone there?');
> // 2nd line
> > comment
> >
> > Is there any way I can tell the Regex to ignore
> > (<script([[:print:]])*>.*</script>) ?
> > The same problem also exists with TEXTAREA and PRE where I want
> to keep
> text
> > formatting in place.
> >
> > I've looked through the archives high and low but haven't been
> able to
> find
> > anything, so any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Ryan Edgar
> >
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