regex replace string garbling

[David Stiller]

I'm trying to build a quick Extension to format selected HTML source
into lines of JavaScript document.write(). So far, I'm using regex to
replace (.*)\n with "htmlOutput += \"$1\"\n" ... which is supposed to
provide the following sample output.

Select this in DW:

<table width="100%" border="0">
<tr>

.... and it becomes this:

htmlOutput += "<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\">";
htmlOutput += " <tr>";

The regex is good (tested in another app), but Dreamweaver insisits on
replacing the source with this:

htmlOutput += "
<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\">
";
htmlOutput += "
<tr>
";

.... (note the extra linebreaks surrounding the $1 content). The relevant
code in my Extension is here:

if (offsets[0] != offsets[1]) {
var theSelection = theDom.source.getText(offsets[0],offsets[1]);
// Format output
var re = /(.*)\n/g;
theSelection = theSelection.replace(re, "htmlOutput += \"$1\"\n");
theDom.insertHTML(theSelection, true);
}

In the past, I've used regex to replace a text version of the DOM
object, but this seems like it should be more direct. Any reason for the
extra line breaks?


David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
"Luck is the residue of good design."

[Distefano Felice]

Perahps the code is not like you expect it. The way you get written it shows
like to be this:
\r<table width="100%" border="0">\r\n
and maybe could be more appropriate this expression:
var re = /\r(.*)\r\n/g;

I can't say it for sure because I didn't check it on DW but you can give it
a try.

Felix


"David Stiller" <stiller-NO-SPAM-@quip.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> I'm trying to build a quick Extension to format selected HTML source
> into lines of JavaScript document.write(). So far, I'm using regex to
> replace (.*)\n with "htmlOutput += \"$1\"\n" ... which is supposed to
> provide the following sample output.
>
> Select this in DW:
>
> <table width="100%" border="0">
> <tr>
>
> ... and it becomes this:
>
> htmlOutput += "<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\">";
> htmlOutput += " <tr>";
>
> The regex is good (tested in another app), but Dreamweaver insisits on
> replacing the source with this:
>
> htmlOutput += "
> <table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\">
> ";
> htmlOutput += "
> <tr>
> ";
>
> ... (note the extra linebreaks surrounding the $1 content). The relevant
> code in my Extension is here:
>
> if (offsets[0] != offsets[1]) {
> var theSelection = theDom.source.getText(offsets[0],offsets[1]);
> // Format output
> var re = /(.*)\n/g;
> theSelection = theSelection.replace(re, "htmlOutput += \"$1\"\n");
> theDom.insertHTML(theSelection, true);
> }
>
> In the past, I've used regex to replace a text version of the DOM
> object, but this seems like it should be more direct. Any reason for the
> extra line breaks?
>
>
> David
> stiller (at) quip (dot) net
> "Luck is the residue of good design."
>
>

[David Stiller]

> The regex is good (tested in another app), but Dreamweaver insisits

> on replacing the source with this:

Heh, well, the regex was only partially good. I needed to search for
(.*)\r\n instead. So much for confidence, eh? ;)

The other part of my problem was that, so far, I wasn't including the
<script> tag wrapper. With that in place, things got better.


David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
"Luck is the residue of good design."

[David Stiller]

> Perahps the code is not like you expect it. The way you get written

> it shows like to be this:
> \r<table width="100%" border="0">\r\n

Yup! I had left out the \r. Thanks, Felix!


David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
"Luck is the residue of good design."