A script that formats code as a square, trying to keep it compiling afterwards. Since it only trying there as some issues with it:
- Whitespace in strings does not stay consistent
- Any language feature that can not be written in any combination of lines may break after the squarification
- Most code will need some manual clean up to compile probably as square
But here is the script for squaring code as squared code [1]:
const fsLibrary = require('fs'); const LineLengthScale = 1; const CharacterAspectRatio
= 0.52; const lengthMultiplier = 1 / CharacterAspectRatio; fsLibrary.readFile('input.txt',
(error, txtString) => { if (error) throw error; let txt = txtString.toString();
txt = txt.replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm, " "); txt = txt.replace(/ +(?= )/g,
''); txt = txt.trim(); let squareEdgeLength = Math.floor(Math.sqrt(txt.length)
* lengthMultiplier * LineLengthScale); let lines = []; let lineLength
= -1; while (txt.length > squareEdgeLength) { let cutIndex = txt.indexOf(" ",
squareEdgeLength); if (cutIndex > lineLength) lineLength = cutIndex;
lines.push(txt.substr(0, cutIndex)); txt = txt.substr(cutIndex + 1);
} lines.push(txt); for (let i = 0; i < lines.length - 1; i++) { let line
= lines[i]; let curWhiteLength = 1; let whiteCount = 0; let j = 0; while
(line.length < lineLength) { if (line[j] != ' ') { whiteCount = 0; }
else { whiteCount++; } if (whiteCount == curWhiteLength) { whiteCount
= 0; line = line.substr(0, j) + " " + line.substr(j); j++; } j++; if
(j >= line.length) { j = 0; curWhiteLength++; } } lines[i] = line; }
let result = lines.join("\n"); fsLibrary.writeFile('output.txt', result,
function (err) { console.log(err); }); console.log(result); })You can also find the commented, standard formatted, code in the index.js in the code folder.
[1] With some adjustment to keep it working