[tab]h turning into \th. {edited} in Developer Help

ID:147350
 
Jun 25 2004, 12:17 pm (Edited on Jun 25 2004, 5:08 pm)
I'm trying to make a command that will accept a code snippet and then send it back compressed(using ;, {, and }). I noticed that it seemed to mess up with the letter h, and after repeatedly telling my self that it was a coincidence, I started testing the h theory. As far as I can tell input()ting a tab("\t") followed by an h will use the \th macro, and I can tell if that's happening, but I'm not sure how to fix it. If I put a space in between the tab and the h, then someone who compiles the output will get at least an indentation error. I was hoping I could fix this without a serious overhaul, so here's what I've got:

client
 verb
  compress(code as message)
   src<<browse(html_encode(Compress(code)),"window=compress")

 proc/Compress(code,indentation="\t")
  var/tablevel=1
  var/compressed
  var/h="h"                            //Tried
  if(findtext(code,"\t[h]"))
   world<<"found"
   code=SwapText(code,"\t[h]","\t\ h") //to fix.
  var/list/lines=SeparateLines(code)
  lines+="\n"
  for(var/v in lines)
   var/tabs=1
   for(tabs,copytext(v,tabs,tabs+length(indentation))==indentation,tabs++)
   v=copytext(v,tabs)
   if(tabs==tablevel)
    if(v!=lines[1])
     v=";[v]"
   while(tabs<tablevel)
    v="}[v]"
    tablevel--
   while(tabs>tablevel)
    v="{[v]"
    tablevel++
   compressed+=v
   sleep()
  return compressed

 proc/SeparateLines(txt)
  var/list/L=new
  while(findtext(txt,"\n"))
   if(copytext(txt,1,findtext(txt,"\n"))) //"\t\th" appears to get lost here.
    L+=copytext(txt,1,findtext(txt,"\n"))
   txt=copytext(txt,findtext(txt,"\n")+1)
  if(txt) L+=txt
  return L


If the indentation is off, it's a mistake I made when converting the tabs to spaces for the forum(I don't like horizontal scolling). Any help would be appreciated.
#1 Jun 28 2004, 12:29 pm
It seems that this only happens when the line is atleast one tab followed by an h. If the h is followed by another visible character(in other words, adding a space to the end of each line won't work either) it appears to turn out fine(displays the h along with the rest of the line). The interesting part is that if the line is "\the"([tab]he) it works dispite the \the macro. So why does the \th macro mess it up? Any ideas? Any at all?


-YMIStillNotGettingThis