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I'm doing an online training course and for the hell of it I decided to look at the source code of one of the pages, and I saw this among the code. I have no idea what they are trying to achieve .. but it sure looks like a WTF to me (apologies for the syntax highlighter I used):
<html><body style='color:#000000; background:#ffffff; '>
function fixsearchstring(){ last_search_data=" " + last_search_string.toLowerCase() + " " last_search_data=fur(last_search_data," "," ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data,"ing "," ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data,"ed "," ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data,"es "," ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data,"s "," ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data,"e "," ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data," "," ") searchtype="and" if (last_search_data.indexOf(' or ')>0){searchtype="or"} last_search_data=fur(last_search_data," and "," ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data," or "," ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data," "," ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "[", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "]", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "!", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "%", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "&", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "_", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "—", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "=", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "?", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "/", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "\n", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, ".", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, ",", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, ";", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, ":", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "–", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "#", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "$", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "-", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "•", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "*", " ") last_search_data=fur(last_search_data, "’", "") smallwordsfound="" last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " we ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " use ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " like ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " any ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " you ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " can ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " any ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " one ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " no ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " our ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " us ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " one ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " he ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " than ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " i ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " who ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " also ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " often ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " she ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " the ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " and ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " them ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " with ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " an ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " or ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " there ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " some ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " from ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " that ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " like ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " your ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " many ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " only ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " on ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " some ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " only ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " may ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " by ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " how ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " if ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " all ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " with ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " all ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " on ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " these ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " does ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " will ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " all ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " now ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " here ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " to ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " is ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " as ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " a ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " at ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " are ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " this ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " of ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " what ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " but ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " which ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " why ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " not ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " do ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " so ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " for ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " him ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " his ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " her ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " were ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " in ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " was ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " set ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " be ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " been ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " way ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " it ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " yet ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " have ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " had ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " has ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " said ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " its ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " more ", " ") last_search_data=fur2(last_search_data, " where ", " ") } function fur2(rstring,rwith,rwith2){ do{ if (rstring.indexOf(rwith)>-1){smallwordsfound=smallwordsfound + "<B>" + rwith + "</B> "} rstring=rstring.replace(rwith, rwith2) } while (rstring.indexOf(rwith, 1) > 0) return rstring } function fur(rstring,rwith,rwith2){ do{ rstring=rstring.replace(rwith, rwith2) } while (rstring.indexOf(rwith, 1) > 0) return rstring }
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Browser error: wtf.js:72187839483 TL;DR
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Stop words done badly.
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Presumably it is supposed to strip out punctuation and short uninteresting words (like conjunctions, personal pronouns etc.) to turn some string into a whitespace separated lists of keywords for a search indexer to deal with.
Bloody clunky way of doing it if you ask me, but certainly a reasonable thing to want to do.
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TRWTF is calling functions 'fur' and 'fur2'
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Fix Unusual Rendering method. fur()
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Maybe they were naming their functions alphabetically.
You know, the first function is called
fun
, then comesfuo
,fup
,fuq
,fur
,fus
...
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@spamcourt said:
You know, the first function is called
fun
, then comesfuo
,fup
,fuq
,fur
...Then comes
fap
,fap
,fap
,fap
,fap
,fap
...
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The first part of that code looks like a WTFy attempt at a stemmer. A very poor one at that.
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Next, on How to Roll Your Own WTFery ...
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@Lorne Kates said:
@Helix said:
TRWTF is calling functions 'fur' and 'fur2'
Damn furries are everywhere.
Leave Blakeyrat alone. It's not his fault he's a pangolin trapped in a mildly incompetent programmer's body.
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@joe.edwards said:
Then comes
fap
,fap
,fap
,fap
,fap
,fap
...Let's hope the furry function doesn't call the fap function...