(SOLVED, MAY DELETE NOW) Any tools to easily CROP a map (not CUT off a piece, but CROP, see inside).

[Somebody613]

I see that Pit is very unlikely to ever do it (editing Space out of his current Earth Map) himself, and I got annoyed (and rage quit) after merely editing 10 lines of text, lol.
So, any actual TOOLS out there that would let me CROP a map the same way you would crop an image (that is, from any side and in any dimensions)?
Note: I'm talking about Pit's map specifically. It has Space added AT THE TOP of the map, as additional (y) coordinates, and thus it can only be textually edited line-by-line. For 200+ lines. Thanks but no thanks.
Any HELP, please?

 

[Somebody613]

Sad...

 

[JL1312]

Sounds like it should be possible to edit the lines more systematically than line by line.

Could you describe what you do when you edit the lines?

 

[Somebody613]

I literally manually cut out entire chunks from y=123 to y=199, for each x. And there are 230+ instances of x there. It's insane.
The problem to do so systematically is because you have a 3-layer repetitive matrix:
PLOT
x=N, y=M
END PLOT
Where N and M are from 0 to "map size -1".
I really don't see how a script would be able to handle the task of cutting out only SOME of these N-M combinations.

 

[JL1312]

Well, if there’s a pattern that can be defined it should be doable with a creative regex and a simple search and replace.
What file is it? i might have time to look at it later today

 

[Somebody613]

The latest version of Pit's map, lol.

https://forums.civfanatics.com/attachments/c2c-uem-bypit2015-v5-8-7z.673144/

I want to de-Space it, both because of memory issues and because we now actually have Multi-Maps-Space available (to a degree).
The task it to delete all PLOT lines for each x, and each y=(123,199).
You technically also need to edit the map size at the top of the file to (y=123), but I can do so myself, lol.
I would really appreciate, if you manage to crack this nut.

 

[JL1312]

Hopefully I didn't misunderstand your request.
In the attached files all the BeginPlot-EndPlot has been replaced by blank lines for all y values of 123-199 (had a brief look at the result and I think I got them all)

 

[Somebody613]

Hopefully I didn't misunderstand your request.
In the attached files all the BeginPlot-EndPlot has been replaced by blank lines for all y values of 123-199 (had a brief look at the result and I think I got them all)

Edited it to full functionality.
Huge thanks. Gonna post it in Pit's thread and CREDIT you.

 

[JL1312]

Removed the blank lines as well (removed all blank lines in the file, so if there were any other than those I created they are gone as well)

 

[Somebody613]

Removed the blank lines as well (removed all blank lines in the file, so if there were any other than those I created they are gone as well)

I did that by loading the scenario as Americans (civ #0) and then saving it in WB, then editing it back to Pit's format, lol.
I'll compare the files now.

 

[Somebody613]

Checked. Identical files (but I already edited it further).
Huge THANKS, dude, really.

 

[JL1312]

No worries, hopefully i didn’t remove too much.
Learned regex just the other day, so I’m just glad I could actially use it.