[Sesquipedalian]

(Credit on this goes to the VBB newbie Blue Star.  Maybe some people have already thought of this, but even still, it is very much worth mentioning.)

Open your ships.tbl, and use find and replace to change every occurrence of two spaces to one space.  Make several passes until no more occurrences are found (find and replace always moves on after replacing something, so an 8 space section gets reduced to 4 spaces the first time, 2 the second, and 1 on the last pass).  In my case, a 375KB ships.tbl was reduced to 284KB.

That is a lot of room.

P.S. Wordpad would crash when I did this, so I copied the text into WordPerfect, did the changes there and then copied the revised text back into Wordpad.

[LAW ENFORCER]

you mean the big spaces between the entrie and its value?

[Galemp]

Genius! IOU! I also removed every instance of repeated developer junk after the ;;.

[Sesquipedalian]

I mean any set of multiple spaces.  There are places where tabs are used instead of spaces, and it doesn't pick those up, but still...

[Kitsune]

It doesn't need to pick up 'Tab's.  
Tab's only count as one character.

I discovered the find and replace function shortly after I edited the whole thing manually.

I did this because I thought I was going to wear out my delete key. x.x



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6-tailed modder.

[ZylonBane]

 

Originally posted by GalacticEmperor:
Genius! IOU!

"Genius"? This is one of the oldest tricks in the search-and-replace book.

[Galemp]

Then why is the forum topic named what it is? Huh? Punk? You want some?!?! (jk)

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[Sesquipedalian]

Just because I called it that.  As I said in the original post, others have probably already thougth of this.  I just posted it for the benefit of anyone who, like myself, hadn't thought of it yet.

[Fozzy]

once i posted a "compresed" table to my website but no one was intrested

[Nico]

Well, there's alreay the cleaned up tbls from shrike, so...  

[IceFire]

Yup, Shrike did it before