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[Jos]

Obfuscator should handle longlines fine when only perfoming the StripOnly or MergeOnly tasks.
I have uploaded a next Beta version with some fixes in it.
Supply me an example script when it is still giving error and I look at it tomorrow.

Enjoy
Jos

[dv8]

Melba23, I did not misunderstood.
I'm trying to work with Jos to make the Obfuscator more useful to the AutoIt community without the need for this community to change their code.
To be honest, If I have to change my code in order to achieve my goal, I won't do it. I'd rather try to write my own tool instead of ruining code written and developed for more than 3 years.
Here is how I see it: This is a perfectly good working code (see the example above). It meets all the requirements of AutoIt and compiles just fine. What you are saying is that I need to reformulate this code in order to be able to achieve my goal.
This situation is like if you have a perfectly good table and the goal is to to put it through a bit narrower door. I'm saying "tilt the table", you are saying "dismantle the table and then put it together again in a different shape". That's how it looks to me.
Anyway, let me prepare the other example for Jos now, because I'll most likely not be around for the weekend.

[dv8]

Thank you Jos!
I'll let you know the results of the tests with the latest Beta and prepare an example for you. Have a nice evening.

[BrewManNH]

If you want to acheive your goal of finding meaningful script lines when you write buggy code, then you're going to need to rewrite the code so that you can do it. Or write your own obfuscator as mentioned.

[Valik]

I plan to add this feature request for Aut2Exe.

Let me save you the trouble. The answer is "Rejected". This feature is useful to you now. It may not be useful to you in the future. It may not make sense to dump a script in that form in the future.

Line numbers should not be shown in compiled scripts at all. Somebody added that functionality because it's slightly useful in simple scripts that don't have any includes because in that rare case the line numbers match. Otherwise, do your debugging using AutoIt3.exe and it's a moot point. If it were up to me compiled scripts would still return "0" or "-1" or whatever they used to return. Actually, it is up to me. I don't feel like changing it back, though, because I don't want to listen to the whining.

[dv8]

Thank you Valik, for your reply and the detailed explanation.
That's how I like the replies, detailed, firm and straight to the point. Some of the MVPs and members here should learn from yours and Jos's example, not just try to increase their posts number.
At least I now know why these line numbers are in the error reports and how you feel about them and my feature request. This saved both me (to add the request) and you (to reject it ) some time.
So now I'll put all my efforts to try and help Jos to make it work right in the Obfuscator, because I'm sure this feature will be useful to may others. As Jos stated: "...this is asked a zillion time by now..."
Thanks again!

[Melba23]

dv8,

Some of the MVPs and members here should learn from yours and Jos's example, not just try to increase their posts number

I take it "How to win friends and influence people" was never on your reading list.

M23

P.S. And my post count does not need padding.

Edited by Melba23, 24 February 2012 - 08:44 PM.
Typo

[dv8]

Melba23,
Yes you are right, it wasn't.
And I never mentioned Mods in my statement so don't take it personally...
And you are right again! I do apologize for that statement. It was out of line.

[Melba23]

dv8,

No problem. We are all part of the same community here - it is important that we do not lose sight of that.

M23

[dv8]

Now back to my 3 issues...
Jos, the latest Beta update solved the problem with the popping Obfuscator GUI, so there is no need for me to make an example script any more.
However the Aut2Exe error:

Line 28930  (File "D:ProjectsAutoITWeb2AutoTrafficRobot_Obfuscated.au3"):

$CountriesList="Afghanistan (AF)|Aland Islands (AX)|Albania (AL)|Algeria (DZ)|American Samoa (AS)|Andorra (AD)|"& "Angola (AO)|Anguilla (AI)|Antarctica (AQ)|Antigua and Barbuda (AG)|Argentina (AR)|Armenia (AM)|"& "Aruba (AW)|Australia (AU)|Austria (AT)|Azerbaijan (AZ)|Bahamas (BS)|Bahrain (BH)|Bangladesh (BD)|"& "Barbados (BB)|Belarus (BY)|Belgium (BE)|Belize (BZ)|Benin (BJ)|Bermuda (BM)|Bhutan (BT)|Bolivia (BO)|"& "Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA)|Botswana (BW)|Bouvet Island (BV)|Brazil (BR)|British Indian Ocean Territory (IO)|"& "British Virgin Islands (VG)|Brunei (BN)|Bulgaria (BG)|Burkina Faso (BF)|Burundi (BI)|Cambodia (KH)|"& "Cameroon (CM)|Canada (CA)|Cape Verde (CV)|Cayman Islands (KY)|Central African Republic (CF)|Chad (TD)|"& "Chile (CL)|China (CN)|Christmas Island (CX)|Cocos (Keeling) Islands (CC)|Colombia (CO)|Comoros (KM)|"& "Congo (CG)|Cook Islands (CK)|Costa Rica (CR)|Croatia (HR)|Cuba (CU)|Cyprus (CY)|Czech Republic (CZ)|"& "Democratic Republic of Congo (CD)|Denmark (DK)|Disputed Territory (XX)|Djibouti (DJ)|Dominica (DM)|"& "Dominican Republic (DO)|East Timor (TL)|Ecuador (EC)|Egypt (EG)|El Salvador (SV)|Equatorial Guinea (GQ)|"& "Eritrea (ER)|Estonia (EE)|Ethiopia (ET)|Falkland Islands (FK)|Faroe Islands (FO)|Federated States of Micronesia (FM)|"& "Fiji (FJ)|Finland (FI)|France (FR)|French Guyana (GF)|French Polynesia (PF)|French Southern Territories (TF)|"& "Gabon (GA)|Gambia (GM)|Georgia (GE)|Germany (DE)|Ghana (GH)|Gibraltar (GI)|Greece (GR)|Greenland (GL)|Grenada (GD)|"& "Guadeloupe (GP)|Guam (GU)|Guatemala (GT)|Guinea (GN)|Guinea-Bissau (GW)|Guyana (GY)|Haiti (HT)|"& "Heard Island and Mcdonald Islands (HM)|Honduras (HN)|Hong Kong (HK)|Hungary (HU)|Iceland (IS)|India (IN)|"& "Indonesia (ID)|Iran (IR)|Iraq (IQ)|Iraq-Saudi Arabia Neutral Zone (XE)|Ireland (IE)|Israel (IL)|Italy (IT)|"& "Ivory Coast (CI)|Jamaica (JM)|Japan (JP)|Jordan (JO)|Kazakhstan (KZ)|Kenya (KE)|Kiribati (KI)|Kuwait (KW)|"& "Kyrgyzstan (KG)|Laos (LA)|Latvia (LV)|Lebanon (LB)|Lesotho (LS)|Liberia (LR)|Libya (LY)|Liechtenstein (LI)|"& "Lithuania (LT)|Luxembourg (LU)|Macau (MO)|Macedonia (MK)|Madagascar (MG)|Malawi (MW)|Malaysia (MY)|Maldives (MV)|"& "Mali (ML)|Malta (MT)|Marshall Islands (MH)|Martinique (MQ)|Mauritania (MR)|Mauritius (MU)|Mayotte (YT)|"& "Mexico (MX)|Moldova (MD)|Monaco (MC)|Mongolia (MN)|Montserrat (MS)|Morocco (MA)|Mozambique (MZ)|Myanmar (MM)|"& "Namibia (NA)|Nauru (NR)|Nepal (NP)|Netherlands (NL)|Netherlands Antilles (AN)|New Caledonia (NC)|New Zealand (NZ)|"& "Nicaragua (NI)|Niger (NE)|Nigeria (NG)|Niue (NU)|Norfolk Island (NF)|North Korea (KP)|Northern Mariana Islands (MP)|"& "Norway (NO)|Oman (OM)|Pakistan (PK)|Palau (PW)|Palestinian Occupied Territories (PS)|Panama (PA)|Papua New Guinea (PG)|"& "Paraguay (PY)|Peru (PE)|Philippines (PH)|Pitcairn Islands (PN)|Poland (PL)|Portugal (PT)|Puerto Rico (PR)|Qatar (QA)|"& "Reunion (RE)|Romania (RO)|Russia (RU)|Rwanda (RW)|Saint Helena and Dependencies (SH)|Saint Kitts and Nevis (KN)|"& "Saint Lucia (LC)|Saint Pierre and Miquelon (PM)|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (VC)|Samoa (WS)|San Marino (SM)|"& "Sao Tome and Principe (ST)|Saudi Arabia (SA)|Senegal (SN)|Serbia and Montenegro (CS)|Seychelles (SC)|Sierra Leone (SL)|"& "Singapore (SG)|Slovakia (SK)|Slovenia (SI)|Solomon Islands (SB)|Somalia (SO)|South Africa (ZA)|"& "South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (GS)|South Korea (KR)|Spain (ES)|Spratly Islands (PI)|Sri Lanka (LK)|"& "Sudan (SD)|Suriname (SR)|Svalbard and Jan Mayen (SJ)|Swaziland (SZ)|Sweden (SE)|Switzerland (CH)|Syria (SY)|Taiwan (TW)|"& "Tajikistan (TJ)|Tanzania (TZ)|Thailand (TH)|Togo (TG)|Tokelau (TK)|Tonga (TO)|Trinidad and Tobago (TT)|Tunisia (TN)|"& "Turkey (TR)|Turkmenistan ™|Turks And Caicos Islands (TC)|Tuvalu (TV)|Uganda (UG)|Ukraine (UA)|United Arab Emirates (AE)|"& "United Kingdom (UK)|United Nations Neutral Zone (XD)|United States (US)|United States Minor Outlying Islands (UM)|"& "Uruguay (UY)|US Virgin Islands (VI)|Uzbekistan (UZ)|Vanuatu (VU)|Vatican City (VA)|Venezuela (VE)|Vietnam (VN)|"& "Wallis and Futuna (WF)|Western Sahara (EH)|Yemen

Error: Unterminated string.

still appears when the obfuscated script is ran trough it.
Try with the last example I posted.

[dv8]

I think BrewManNH was right when he said "...If you have such long lines/strings then you're not going to be able to use /mo..."
What Obfuscator is currently doing is concatenating lines that were deliberately split into smaller parts in order to pass through the compiler. And this concatenation is adding more characters to this long line (a few "& " in this particular example), making it even longer and it fails. So this is pointless.
Again as BrewManNH stated, a simple workaround for me would be to use a few string variables to brake the long string and then concatenate these variables in the final string like this:

$String1="Part 1 of the long string..."
$String2="Part 2 of the long string..."
...
$CountriesList=$String1&$String2&...

And I'm more than willing to do that now if it will get me to my goal.

[Jos]

Now back to my 3 issues...
Jos, the latest Beta update solved the problem with the popping Obfuscator GUI, so there is no need for me to make an example script any more.
However the Aut2Exe error:

Line 28930  (File "D:ProjectsAutoITWeb2AutoTrafficRobot_Obfuscated.au3"):

$CountriesList="Afghanistan (AF)|Aland Islands (AX)|Albania (AL)|Algeria (DZ)|American Samoa (AS)|Andorra (AD)|"& "Angola (AO)|Anguilla (AI)|Antarctica (AQ)|Antigua and Barbuda (AG)|Argentina (AR)|Armenia (AM)|"& "Aruba (AW)|Australia (AU)|Austria (AT)|Azerbaijan (AZ)|Bahamas (BS)|Bahrain (BH)|Bangladesh (BD)|"& "Barbados (BB)|Belarus (BY)|Belgium (BE)|Belize (BZ)|Benin (BJ)|Bermuda (BM)|Bhutan (BT)|Bolivia (BO)|"& "Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA)|Botswana (BW)|Bouvet Island (BV)|Brazil (BR)|British Indian Ocean Territory (IO)|"& "British Virgin Islands (VG)|Brunei (BN)|Bulgaria (BG)|Burkina Faso (BF)|Burundi (BI)|Cambodia (KH)|"& "Cameroon (CM)|Canada (CA)|Cape Verde (CV)|Cayman Islands (KY)|Central African Republic (CF)|Chad (TD)|"& "Chile (CL)|China (CN)|Christmas Island (CX)|Cocos (Keeling) Islands (CC)|Colombia (CO)|Comoros (KM)|"& "Congo (CG)|Cook Islands (CK)|Costa Rica (CR)|Croatia (HR)|Cuba (CU)|Cyprus (CY)|Czech Republic (CZ)|"& "Democratic Republic of Congo (CD)|Denmark (DK)|Disputed Territory (XX)|Djibouti (DJ)|Dominica (DM)|"& "Dominican Republic (DO)|East Timor (TL)|Ecuador (EC)|Egypt (EG)|El Salvador (SV)|Equatorial Guinea (GQ)|"& "Eritrea (ER)|Estonia (EE)|Ethiopia (ET)|Falkland Islands (FK)|Faroe Islands (FO)|Federated States of Micronesia (FM)|"& "Fiji (FJ)|Finland (FI)|France (FR)|French Guyana (GF)|French Polynesia (PF)|French Southern Territories (TF)|"& "Gabon (GA)|Gambia (GM)|Georgia (GE)|Germany (DE)|Ghana (GH)|Gibraltar (GI)|Greece (GR)|Greenland (GL)|Grenada (GD)|"& "Guadeloupe (GP)|Guam (GU)|Guatemala (GT)|Guinea (GN)|Guinea-Bissau (GW)|Guyana (GY)|Haiti (HT)|"& "Heard Island and Mcdonald Islands (HM)|Honduras (HN)|Hong Kong (HK)|Hungary (HU)|Iceland (IS)|India (IN)|"& "Indonesia (ID)|Iran (IR)|Iraq (IQ)|Iraq-Saudi Arabia Neutral Zone (XE)|Ireland (IE)|Israel (IL)|Italy (IT)|"& "Ivory Coast (CI)|Jamaica (JM)|Japan (JP)|Jordan (JO)|Kazakhstan (KZ)|Kenya (KE)|Kiribati (KI)|Kuwait (KW)|"& "Kyrgyzstan (KG)|Laos (LA)|Latvia (LV)|Lebanon (LB)|Lesotho (LS)|Liberia (LR)|Libya (LY)|Liechtenstein (LI)|"& "Lithuania (LT)|Luxembourg (LU)|Macau (MO)|Macedonia (MK)|Madagascar (MG)|Malawi (MW)|Malaysia (MY)|Maldives (MV)|"& "Mali (ML)|Malta (MT)|Marshall Islands (MH)|Martinique (MQ)|Mauritania (MR)|Mauritius (MU)|Mayotte (YT)|"& "Mexico (MX)|Moldova (MD)|Monaco (MC)|Mongolia (MN)|Montserrat (MS)|Morocco (MA)|Mozambique (MZ)|Myanmar (MM)|"& "Namibia (NA)|Nauru (NR)|Nepal (NP)|Netherlands (NL)|Netherlands Antilles (AN)|New Caledonia (NC)|New Zealand (NZ)|"& "Nicaragua (NI)|Niger (NE)|Nigeria (NG)|Niue (NU)|Norfolk Island (NF)|North Korea (KP)|Northern Mariana Islands (MP)|"& "Norway (NO)|Oman (OM)|Pakistan (PK)|Palau (PW)|Palestinian Occupied Territories (PS)|Panama (PA)|Papua New Guinea (PG)|"& "Paraguay (PY)|Peru (PE)|Philippines (PH)|Pitcairn Islands (PN)|Poland (PL)|Portugal (PT)|Puerto Rico (PR)|Qatar (QA)|"& "Reunion (RE)|Romania (RO)|Russia (RU)|Rwanda (RW)|Saint Helena and Dependencies (SH)|Saint Kitts and Nevis (KN)|"& "Saint Lucia (LC)|Saint Pierre and Miquelon (PM)|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (VC)|Samoa (WS)|San Marino (SM)|"& "Sao Tome and Principe (ST)|Saudi Arabia (SA)|Senegal (SN)|Serbia and Montenegro (CS)|Seychelles (SC)|Sierra Leone (SL)|"& "Singapore (SG)|Slovakia (SK)|Slovenia (SI)|Solomon Islands (SB)|Somalia (SO)|South Africa (ZA)|"& "South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (GS)|South Korea (KR)|Spain (ES)|Spratly Islands (PI)|Sri Lanka (LK)|"& "Sudan (SD)|Suriname (SR)|Svalbard and Jan Mayen (SJ)|Swaziland (SZ)|Sweden (SE)|Switzerland (CH)|Syria (SY)|Taiwan (TW)|"& "Tajikistan (TJ)|Tanzania (TZ)|Thailand (TH)|Togo (TG)|Tokelau (TK)|Tonga (TO)|Trinidad and Tobago (TT)|Tunisia (TN)|"& "Turkey (TR)|Turkmenistan ™|Turks And Caicos Islands (TC)|Tuvalu (TV)|Uganda (UG)|Ukraine (UA)|United Arab Emirates (AE)|"& "United Kingdom (UK)|United Nations Neutral Zone (XD)|United States (US)|United States Minor Outlying Islands (UM)|"& "Uruguay (UY)|US Virgin Islands (VI)|Uzbekistan (UZ)|Vanuatu (VU)|Vatican City (VA)|Venezuela (VE)|Vietnam (VN)|"& "Wallis and Futuna (WF)|Western Sahara (EH)|Yemen

Error: Unterminated string.

still appears when the obfuscated script is ran trough it.
Try with the last example I posted.

This is the limitation within autoit3/aut2exe with a max line length of 4095.

from the helpfile: Maximum length of a single script line: 4,095

Edited by Jos, 24 February 2012 - 10:32 PM.

[dv8]

This is the limitation within autoit3/aut2exe with a max line length of 4095.
from the helpfile: Maximum length of a single script line: 4,095

Yeap, I'm aware of this limitation, that's why I posted my next post.
The problem is that in this particular situation, this long line is generated by the Obfuscator. The initial code (before obfuscation that is) is compiling just fine with Aut2Exe.
In this particular case it is easy to fix this problem, by using the BrewManNH's approach, because the line contains a long string. But in some cases this approach may not be suitable and the obfuscation with /MO may generate similar long lines and making the code uncompilable, even though the initial source is compilable.

[wraithdu]

It would be trivial to replace line continuations with &= (don't event need to assign diff vars and concat them):

$var = "string part one"
$var &= " string part two"
$var &= " string part three"

[Jos]

It seems that there is a max input record length for AUT2EXE of 4095 but internal processing doesn't have this limit.
Only option I can think of is that Obfuscator will not merge the lines of the sourcefile that is being processed by aut2exe and creates a second file that will mimic what aut2exe does internally and call that Scriptname_something-else.au3

Jos

[Jos]

I decided not to make a separate file but to avoid creating a longer sourcefile record in the latest uploaded Beta version of Obfuscator.
This means that when you have a continuationline which is combined longer than 4095, Obfuscator will merge with a max length of 4095 thus creating multiple lines and in that case the linenumbers will not match anymore.
A warning will be displayed of this fact:

-Line: 4. Encountered a continuationline which would be longer than 4095 when merge into 1 line, so spliting this continuation line into multiple lines..

[dv8]

Jos,
once again, a huge THANK YOU for your efforts and for the /MO Obfuscator option.
This final Beta works like a charm!
I consider My Goal in the first post achieved and I'll update the topic name, adding (RESOLVED) at the end.
I'll also prepare a detailed explanation for the others who may encounter this issue and update my first post, so they won't have to go through all 57 posts to find the solution.
And many thanks to all others, who took part in the process of achieving this goal!

[dv8]

Hmm, I thought I'll be able to change the topic title as an author, but I can't find this option.
I would like to ask someone from the moderators or admins group to add a "(RESOLVED)" at the end of the topic title.
Thank you.

[Jos]

I have changed it for you. Believe you should be able to change it as well, but not sure how things look for you.

[Melba23]

dv8,

Edit the first post and select the "Use Full Editor" option - that allows editing of the title as well as the text.

M23