When I posted the regexp for adding output=”false” recently, it reminded me that I had saved a number of other regular expressions for previous search-and-replace operations. Here’s three others I’ve found helpful in cleaning up code in the past.
Strip whitespace from end of lines
Extra white space at the end of a line probably won’t cause any problems but it’s unnecessary and just taking up space. You can strip it with this.
Find: ([\S])[ |\t]+$
Replace: $1A variant of this one is to find “^[ |\t]+$” which will find all lines that only contain spaces and tabs.
Find unescaped ampersands
Most ampersand characters need to be escaped in web apps – this will track all ampersands not followed by the most commonly escaped variants like – add your own as needed.
Find: [^ ]&[^ |(amp;)|(nbsp;)|(gt;)|(lt;)]
Convert isDefined to structKeyExists
StructKeyExists is the preferred method of checking if a variable is defined but updating all of those isDefined()s by hand is a drag. Convert your entire code base with this search and replace:
Find: [iI]sDefined\("(FORM|URL).([A-Za-z0-9]+)"\)
Replace: structKeyExists($1, "$2")
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Dan G. Switzer, II said:
on February 9, 2011 at 5:58 am
RE: Strip whitespace from end of lines, most IDE provide a method for doing this automatically on saving a file.
CFEclipse offers this option under Window > Preferences > CFEclipse > Editor > Trim trailing spaces before saving
I like my IDE just handling this for me, because it’s one less thing I have to manage manually!
Dan G. Switzer, II said:
on February 9, 2011 at 6:01 am
Oh yeah, another useful RegEx is one I worked up for finding variables w/in a block that don’t appear to be inside a block:
http://blog.pengoworks.com/index.cfm/2008/7/23/Using-Eclipse-to-find-queries-that-arent-using-cfqueryparam-
]*>([^#]*(((?<!value=")#[^#]*#)))((?<!]*?)
The regex does not explicitly check for the token <cfqueryparam, but instead checks to make sure that CF variables are preceded with the string value="—which is the attribute used in .
The regex isn’t perfect and may pick up occasional false positives, but from my testing it seems to work pretty well.
Brian said:
on February 10, 2011 at 11:51 pm
Great ones Dan – thanks! I agree about the IDE solving the whitespace issue but a lot of times you need to process an entire folder or project so it’s helpful to have it clean it up.