Andy Chase

Dreamweaver's imagemap functionality is pretty handy for constructing the pairs of coordinates necessary to define countries on a Lux map.

The only problem is, the HTML coordinates are all strung together with commas, while the official spec for Lux maps requires that each coordinate pair be separated by a space.

Fortunately, splitting the long, comma separated string into nice neat pairs is easily accomplished with a regular expression search/replace. I used Smultron, but any text editor with regex search/replace should do. I put the coordinate string in a new document, searched for

'(\d+?),(\d+?),'

and replaced it with

'\1,\2 '

(The single quotes are only there to illustrate the space after the \2 backreference; don't include them in the find/replace fields.) This should turn a string like

156,406,148,363,139,365,140,349,

into a string like

156,406 148,363 139,365 140,349

Which can then be copy/pasted into the luxb file.