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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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  • S

    Browser error: wtf.js:72187839483 TL;DR

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  • P

    Stop words done badly.

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  • eViLegion

    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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  • H

     TRWTF is calling functions 'fur' and 'fur2'

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  • skotl

    Fix Unusual Rendering method. fur()

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  • Lorne Kates
    Trolleybus Mechanic

    @Helix said:

     TRWTF is calling functions 'fur' and 'fur2'

     

    Damn furries are everywhere.

     

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  • S

    Maybe they were naming their functions alphabetically.

    You know, the first function is called fun, then comes fuo, fup, fuq, fur, fus...

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  • error
    Considered Harmful

    @spamcourt said:

    You know, the first function is called fun, then comes fuo, fup, fuq, fur...

    Then comes fap, fap, fap, fap, fap, fap...

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  • PJH
    Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    The first part of that code looks like a WTFy attempt at a stemmer. A very poor one at that.

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  • R

    Next, on How to Roll Your Own WTFery ...

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  • drurowin

    @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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  • ekolis

    @joe.edwards said:

    Then comes fap, fap, fap, fap, fap, fap...

    Let's hope the furry function doesn't call the fap function...

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