Removing all tags

[Brian Smithers]

Well, I'm working on a script
and it relies on removing all <> tags.
Though I don't know how to do this.
Help?

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[Brian Smithers]

function findNextTag(%string)
{
   %start = strPos(%string,"<");
   %end = strPos(%string,">");
   return %start SPC %end;
}
function removeTags(%string)
{
   while(findNextTag(%string) !$= "")
   {
      %tagpos = findNextTag(%string);
      %start = getWord(%tagpos,0);
      %end = getWord(%tagpos,1);
      %sut = getSubStr(%string,0,%start);
      %eut = getSubStr(%string,%end,strLen(%string));
      %newstr = %sut @ %eut;
   }
   return %newstr;
}

this makes me crash
anyone help?

[Lugnut]

Why don't you just load the whole script or whatever as a variable, then do strReplace(%script, "<", "");strReplace(%script, ">", "");?

[Brian Smithers]

Why don't you just load the whole script or whatever as a variable, then do strReplace(%script, "<", "");strReplace(%script, ">", "");?

I have to remove the entire tag
including the things inside.

[Lugnut]

Oh.
Aren't there wildcards in torque?

is it absolutely neccesary to do this ingame? I know how to do it with Notepad++...

[Brian Smithers]

1 Aren't there wildcards in torque?

2 is it absolutely neccesary to do this ingame?

1 whats that

2 if it wasn't then I wouldn't have posted.

[phflack]

i think i got it

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function findNextTag(%string)
{
   %start = strPos(%string,"<");
   %end = strPos(%string,">");
   return %start SPC %end;
}
function removeTags(%string)
{
   while(findNextTag(%string) !$= "-1 -1")
   {
      %tagpos = findNextTag(%string);
      %start = getWord(%tagpos,0);
      %end = getWord(%tagpos,1);
      %sut = getSubStr(%string,0,%start);
      %eut = getSubStr(%string,%end,strLen(%string) - 1);
      %newstr = %sut @ %eut;
   }
   return %newstr;
}
i was testing the first function
echo(findNextTag("hi<bluh>quack")); returned 2 7
echo(findNextTag("blub")); returned -1 -1

and i think the substring has to be a valid position in the string, maybe not

[Brian Smithers]

and i think the substring has to be a valid position in the string, maybe not

getSubStr(string,start,end) - Used to get a section of a string. Start and End are integers.

EDIT: Crashed me.

[phflack]

um, just tested it
i think i crashed... not sure though haha
and i know they're integers, but does it have to be a valid position in the string?
ie

duckquack
012345678

would subString("duckquack", 0, 10); return duckquack or an error?

edit: closed it due to being frozen...
and fuuu, now i gotta retype it all

edit: oh, duh
we're not updating the stuff in the while loop

edit again:
test this?

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function findNextTag(%string)
{
   %start = strPos(%string,"<");
   %end = strPos(%string,">");
   return %start SPC %end;
}
function removeTags(%string)
{
   %newstr = %string;
   while(findNextTag(%newstr) !$= "-1 -1")
   {
      %tagpos = findNextTag(%string);
      %start = getWord(%tagpos,0);
      %end = getWord(%tagpos,1);
      %sut = getSubStr(%string,0,%start);
      %eut = getSubStr(%string,%end,strLen(%string) - 1);
      %newstr = %sut @ %eut;
   }
   return %newstr;
}


[Jardev]

Shouldn't

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   %newstr = %string;Go inside the while() statement?

[Chrono]

getSubStr(string,start,end) - Used to get a section of a string. Start and End are integers.

EDIT: Crashed me.

Nope.

getSubStr(string,start,length)

[phflack]

Shouldn't

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   %newstr = %string;Go inside the while() statement?

no, then it'd reset each time

Nope.

getSubStr(string,start,length)

so then...

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function findNextTag(%string)
{
   %start = strPos(%string,"<");
   %end = strPos(%string,">");
   return %start SPC %end;
}
function removeTags(%string)
{
   %newstr = %string;
   while(findNextTag(%newstr) !$= "-1 -1")
   {
      %tagpos = findNextTag(%string);
      %start = getWord(%tagpos,0);
      %end = getWord(%tagpos,1);
      %sut = getSubStr(%string,0,%start);
      %eut = getSubStr(%string,%end,strLen(%string) - 1 - %end);
      %newstr = %sut @ %eut;
   }
   return %newstr;
}


[Brian Smithers]

no, then it'd reset each timeso then...

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function findNextTag(%string)
{
   %start = strPos(%string,"<");
   %end = strPos(%string,">");
   return %start SPC %end;
}
function removeTags(%string)
{
   %newstr = %string;
   while(findNextTag(%newstr) !$= "-1 -1")
   {
      %tagpos = findNextTag(%string);
      %start = getWord(%tagpos,0);
      %end = getWord(%tagpos,1);
      %sut = getSubStr(%string,0,%start);
      %eut = getSubStr(%string,%end,strLen(%string) - 1 - %end);
      %newstr = %sut @ %eut;
   }
   return %newstr;
}


did you test this?

[otto-san]

stripColorCodes( stringtoStrip )
stripMLControlChars( sourceString )

do those not work

[Brian Smithers]

stripColorCodes( stringtoStrip )
stripMLControlChars( sourceString )

do those not work

Do those take out every single tag.