a simple string question

[vedrandekovic at v-programs.com]

On 28 srp, 14:15, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> vedrandeko... at v-programs.com wrote:
> > On 28 srp, 07:05, Zentrader <zentrad... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> vedrandeko... at v-programs.com wrote:
> >>>>> NEW TEXT :  "Hello world;\nHello:\n\t\t\n\n\n\n\n\nHello2"
> >> If you are doing all of this to format the output into columns,
> >> Python's print() or write() will do this, and is easier as well.  Some
> >> more info on what you want to do will clear things up.
>
> > Hi,
>
> > That is confusing me too, so now I will try explain it more.This is
> > text before "translation":
> > Let me explain you with python code. I want to this "function" act
> > code indentation
>
> >>>> Short_Text="n=90; if n==90:print 'ok'"
> > Then now I must  write that function for detect ";" and ":", and if
> > that function detect ";" then it appends "\n" before ";" but
> > if detect ":" then it appends "\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t"
> >>>> Short_text_after_translation="n=90;\nif n==90:\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tprint 'ok"
> > ...And now when we run this code with exec this must look like:
>
> > n=90;
> > if n==90:
> >        print 'ok'
>
> > I think this will be enough for help.
>
> OK, but you don't want that many tab characters if you can the code to
> look like you show it. It's not, anyway, a good idea to use tabs to
> indent code.
>
> I suspect what you need is to split the code on semicolons first, then
> re-form lines with colons in them. Some simple code to do this would
> look *something* like what follows. This will handle a little more than
> you wanted.
>
>  >>> Short_Text="n=90; if n==90:print 'ok'"
>  >>> compound_lines = Short_Text.split(";")
>  >>> for line in compound_lines:
> ...   line = line.replace(":", ":\n    ")
> ...   print line
> ...
> n=90
>   if n==90:
>      print 'ok'
>  >>>
>
> Note there are issues here that I haven't addressed. The first is that
> leading spaces on the second statement need to be removed, and the
> second is that this only works at the outermost level of indentation.
> For example, if you want to end up translating function definitions with
> if statements inside them correctly you will need to handle multiple
> levels of indentation. There are other problems, like semicolons and
> colons inside string constants should be ignored, but the only way to
> get over those will be to parse the program text according to some
> grammar rather than using ad-hoc methods such as the above.
>
> I hope I have finally been of some assistance ... please reply via the
> newsgroup, not in personal email.
>
> regards
>   Steve
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Thanks Steve!
When first version of this software emerge (after competition)  you
will get your full version for free.

Once again thanks!

Regards,
Vedran