A little at a time, my friend. You have to go slowly.

The very first thing is that you should ALWAYS have some manner of development box which (relatively) closely mirrors the production environment. What're you going to do, develop in production?!? Of course not!

Get it lined up. That will help you understand what's going on. Comment it extensively. Then, start breaking out functions. Rename variables. Take it very slowly.

You really can't do very much, unfortunately, without that development area. Demand that, or say that what the manager requested cannot be safely done.

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In reply to Re: Re: Bite off a little at a time... by dragonchild
in thread Best way to fix a broken but functional program? by idnopheq

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