A program to replace all JS comments with JSP comments in jsp files

[tungchau81]

Hi,
I have a lot of JSP files that serve as pure JavaScript code. I need to
convert all JavaScript comments inside these JSP files to JSP comments
which use <%-- // --%> tags. Instead of doing it manually, I would
like to write a script/program that can detect the JS declarative
comment structure and replace it with the equivalent JSP comment.
However, I do not know how to start writing such kind of
script/program. I would appreciate alot if you can suggest me some
tool/program, Linux shell command or programming language (Perl,
JavaScript, ...) that I can use. Is there any available program out
there that is doing this task ?

Thanks in advance,
Tung Chau

[Erwin Moller]

tu********@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi,
I have a lot of JSP files that serve as pure JavaScript code. I need to
convert all JavaScript comments inside these JSP files to JSP comments
which use <%-- // --%> tags. Instead of doing it manually, I would
like to write a script/program that can detect the JS declarative
comment structure and replace it with the equivalent JSP comment.
However, I do not know how to start writing such kind of
script/program. I would appreciate alot if you can suggest me some
tool/program, Linux shell command or programming language (Perl,
JavaScript, ...) that I can use. Is there any available program out
there that is doing this task ?

Thanks in advance,
Tung Chau

Hi Tung,

Well, what you are asking for is a straightforward search-replace alghoritm,
right?
Such tasks are easy with scriptinglanguages like PHP or Perl.
Even VB-script should be able to do it. ;-)

My Perl suck these days, so if you can go PHP, have a look at:
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php
and fopen() for opening.

try to make a program that opens all files, replaces your commentstags, and
then safes the file.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Hal Rosser]

<tu********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:11**********************@f6g2000cwb.googlegro ups.com...

Hi,
I have a lot of JSP files that serve as pure JavaScript code. I need to
convert all JavaScript comments inside these JSP files to JSP comments
which use <%-- // --%> tags. Instead of doing it manually, I would
like to write a script/program that can detect the JS declarative
comment structure and replace it with the equivalent JSP comment.
However, I do not know how to start writing such kind of
script/program. I would appreciate alot if you can suggest me some
tool/program, Linux shell command or programming language (Perl,
JavaScript, ...) that I can use. Is there any available program out
there that is doing this task ?

Thanks in advance,
Tung Chau

That wheel has already been invented.
You can google to find a shareware to search/replace through an entire
directory.
Its been several years since I used one, so the name of the one I used has
departed the memory banks.
But look at it as a find-replace task, heck, even MS Word can do that for a
file at a time.
HTH Hal

[Ian Collins]

tu********@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi,
I have a lot of JSP files that serve as pure JavaScript code. I need to
convert all JavaScript comments inside these JSP files to JSP comments
which use <%-- // --%> tags. Instead of doing it manually, I would
like to write a script/program that can detect the JS declarative
comment structure and replace it with the equivalent JSP comment.
However, I do not know how to start writing such kind of
script/program. I would appreciate alot if you can suggest me some
tool/program, Linux shell command or programming language (Perl,
JavaScript, ...) that I can use. Is there any available program out
there that is doing this task ?

man find
man sed

--
Ian Collins.

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <OA*******************@bignews3.bellsouth.net>, dated
Fri, 2 Jun 2006 15:46:56 remote, seen in news:comp.lang.javascript, Hal
Rosser <hr*****@gmail.com> posted :

That wheel has already been invented.
You can google to find a shareware to search/replace through an entire
directory.

Why go to that expense? See in sig.

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