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When I open up my asp code in an editor, I see TONS of extra whitespace between code lines which is making the editor bomb out because it takes so long to load all the lines. When I open up the asp code in notepad I see weird square like characters where the extra whitespace is. I have tried doing a find/replace on the characters, but that hasn't worked. Does anybody know anyway of getting rid of these characters??? Please help, I am desperate.
Feb 22 '08 #1
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DrBunchman
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Hi WebQueen,

Which editor are you using and are they just .asp files you are trying to open?

Dr B
Feb 25 '08 #2
CroCrew
564 Recognized Expert Contributor
It might be that your file is corrupt.

On a side note. Notepad is a fine old tool but you might want to look into Notpad++. It’s a powerful editor free tool.

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

But if you want to buy a powerful editor then give a look at UltraEdit. It is the best in my opinion.

http://www.ultraedit.com
Feb 25 '08 #3
markrawlingson
346 Recognized Expert Contributor
Does anybody know anyway of getting rid of these characters??? Please help, I am desperate.
You're just going to have to delete the screwy characters manually. I would tend to think the file probably got corrupted but i've also seen WYSIWYG web bots do this to files before under certain circumstances. As for the white space, I wish I could show you some before and afters of some of the files I've ripped apart which were created using wysiwygs - you want to talk about white space? Trying 20kb of it in a single file.

Don't know if these files have been touched by a WYSIWYG before, but that is one possibility - other than that the only explanation I could offer is that your server just decided to give you a headache one day and corrupted the file on ya...

It sounds like you can open it in notepad with out the file crashing so i'd go in there and remove a bunch of them, re-save the file under a DIFFERENT file name so as not to kill the original copy - who knows what those characters really are.. could be part of your actual code.. and then try to open it in your favourite editor again.

Sincerely,
Mark
Feb 25 '08 #4

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