I am asked to refactor this file in order to make it readable
what do you say guys ?

God help you.

Don't do it sober.

@jlave215
I hope he do

@lostpirate
hahahah
I which I can do that right now
and run away

Switch spaces with tabs, and tabs with spaces.

Who wants to read 18000+ lines of code anyway ?

Is death an option ?

Good luck, I have never had to tackle such a large blob ...

Run away ;-)

@GarreauArthur
Yes I think, but the company will not pay for the burial costs
Hehehe

@Voxera
Thx

God speed. If you finish alive, let us know!

I just found a function of 10,000 line
In that file😕

Just say you want 1$ for every line of code.

@Jasey
Hehehehehe
Riiiiiiight......

One more thing I forgot to mention
That the file I am refactoring
Is the backend of a Windows form
meaning it is using variables from the form
🙂

@Jasey
Thx

common sense of programming software .... every fu***** function, method, procedure, etc ... that takes more than 4 screens ... must ... and this is not a recommendation..... must be splited in multiple function, classes, etc ...

@Nosvampire
Agree 1000%

You can say I'm crazy but it could be actually fun and challenging

I mean imagine the satisfaction you'll get when you finish

Oh yea... And be sure to have been paid in advance lol

@dontPanic
Ok I wouldn't panic
And I am not...

You got a point there
Here some thing I didn't say yet
That I have 10 days to do it
Yeah I know there is no challenge anymore

But I will challenge my self to finish it in couple of days
😉

@dontPanic and the hysteria and frustration when it doesn't work ....

If you want to reduce line count, make everything on one line. Sorted xD

burn it with fire. or minify, and then make them refactor it again.
Or bring a hacksaw to work, and while holding it nonchalantly, ask them to do a better job.

😀

In my work place we have a single file of ~65k LOC with multiple class in it that have cached state (i.e. variables with meaningless names used to store local variables)!

Still, good luck :D

@gaetanballevre
Thx

Just auto format it or use ST3 with some regex to make it pretty

Ctrl-K Ctrl-D

No nonsense

@AboMahdi good luck!

@Nosvampire that's the thrill 8)

Don't do it... If it works, don't touch it.
You'll just get into a journey for which you know the start point but the ending is not visible in the horizon.

@nocgod
The thing is I want to refractor the code to be in a separate environment
Where the windows app still use it and run normally
And will be used by another process
So it should be refactored in order to be used both ways

Ctrl + a, delete

@chrisrhymes
😂 😂 😂 😂

bye bye Weekend

@Anu-cool-007
Yeah 😕

You can have a look with resharper. It can help refactoring code quite well

@AboMahdi this task will go under your accomplishments. All the best.

@samxxx
Thx

Challenge accepted ( remove all line breaks to make one giant line)

And maybe writing it from scratch is faster then refactoring

GLHF

@zombie01 word of advice.

Unless its relatively small or well covered in unit tests, avoid rewrite.

Many small but important checks or edge cases are probably covered by the code but not documented.

Those are easily missed on a rewrite.

Eventually,
I checked the code and refactored some main functions(a 1,200 line mainly)

And made it accessible from an API
But I am never to touch that thing again in a 1000 years
🙂

Rage quit and gtfo

@Nosvampire more than 4 screens?? That's a joke right? 50 lines is already an absolute limit. Check out SIG guidelines, they are even much stricter.

@CodeMasterAlex i would usually be agree wirh you .... but now that im working in a place where the policy is, declare every var in a line, and in the end of the functions release those vars, set to nothing, etc.. if those functions has an average of 30 vars, that left you nothing to deal with, and get the ideal of 50 lines

And this right here is way templates and mother/daughter classes were introduced to C++.

May you survive this!

@AboMahdi
So, what does it do? What does it contain? ( and what is it's maintainability score in codemetric?)

@CWins
Its functionality I can't say sorry
But it is a code of a winform written in c#
The goal to be achieved is to make it work as a logic of a webservice

Meaning refactor the functions in order to make the software run as a rest api when run from cmd, and do all its functionality normally
Same time keeping it working normally if it was run by double click as a form

PS: the form has 2 partial classes beside this file

@bitsnpieces you are taking it seriously 🤔

vim ./file.something

20000 J

:wq