:: removing tab spaces from code ::

babelfish

06-17-2002, 12:42 PM

hi peeps - in the html 2 jscript converter in my sig i cant get the function to remove \r (tab) spaces

any ideas:

<html>
<title>HTML - JAVASCRIPT CONVERTER</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>

<script language="JavaScript">

</script>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#dddddd" onLoad="document.html.source.focus()">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="33%"> </td>
<td width="34%"><img src="img/html2javascript.gif" width="449" height="70"></td>
<td width="33%" valign="bottom">
<p>version 2.3<br />
updated 17.04.02</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<form name="html">
<div align="center">
<textarea name="source" class="box" cols="60" rows="17"></textarea>
<br>
<br />
<input type="button" name="convert" value=":: convert (compact) ::" onClick="writeCode(document.html.source.value)">
<input type="button" name="convert2" value=":: convert (expanded) ::" title="editor mode" onClick="writeCode(document.html.source.value,'expanded')">
<input type="button" name="reset" value=":: reset ::" onClick="self.location.href=self.location.href">
<input type="button" name="clipboard" value=":: copy to clipboard ::" onClick="ctrlA(document.html.source)">
</div>
</form>
<p align="center">:: html2javascript converter by babelfish - based on code created by jopie ::</p>

thanks!

joh6nn

06-17-2002, 12:59 PM

\r is a carriage return. \t is a tab. i'm thinking that's your problem.

by the way, i've meant to suggest it before, but forgotten. if you wrap the html in single qoutes ( ' ), then you don't have to escape the double quotes.

babelfish

06-17-2002, 01:14 PM

erm, tried that and it dont work :(

any ideas?

and i didnt change the " and ' cos im carp @ jscript :)

although if that was an offer i will gladly accept :)

joh6nn

06-17-2002, 04:36 PM

that was my only idea. i do know for a fact though, that tab is \t, and not \r. i double checked the Guide (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscript4/) on that.

i got a couple of projects right now, but later, if you want, i'll take a look at helping you switch the quotes around.

babelfish

06-17-2002, 04:42 PM

i might hold you to that ;) and trying to workaround the document.write and style= NS4.7 bug
(try to get document.write (*style=*) to work :) )

joh6nn

06-22-2002, 10:06 PM

ok, i did the following to your code. i haven't had the chance to test it at all, so don't throw what you have away in favor of this.

i changed it to use the replace() method of Strings, instead of the split/join combo you had. also, i tried changing the quote marks around. the places where i changed it are in red. supposing those changes work, you could delete the line in bold, as unnecessary.

hope this helps.

function writeCode(html,syntax)
{
var code="var code='";

while (html.indexOf(" ")!=-1) {
html.replace(/\u0020\u0020/g," ");
}

html.replace(/\\/g,"\\\\");
html.replace(/\//g","\\/");
html.replace(/\"/g,"\\\"");
html.replace(/\t\t/g,"");
html.replace(/\n\n/g,"\n");
if (syntax && syntax=="expanded") { code+=html.replace(/\n/g,"\\n';\ncode+='"); }
else { code+=html.replace(/\n/g,"\\n"); }
code+="';\n\ndocument.write(code)";

document.html.source.value=code;
document.html.convert.value=":: done ::";
document.html.convert2.value=":: done ::";
document.html.convert.onclick=null;
document.html.convert2.onclick=null;
}

babelfish

06-24-2002, 08:43 AM

that throws an error