replace escape characters

 

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Send this some text and it will give you the text back with the escaped '\' characters switched. Current supports \n - RETURN \t - TAB \q - QUOTE Others can be easily added in the case statement. This really isn't a behavior but rather a utility for text that should be placed in a movie script.

on replaceEscapeChars theText   if stringP(theText) = 1 then     -- save the old itemDelimiter and replace it with "\"     oldDelimiter = the itemDelimiter     the itemDelimiter = "\"     newText = theText.item[1]     numItems = theText.item.count     repeat with i = 2 to numItems       currentItem = theText.item[i]       specialChar = ""              -- figure out which char it is       escapedChar = currentItem.char[1]       case escapedChar of         "n":           specialChar = RETURN         "t":           specialChar = TAB         "q":           specialChar = QUOTE       end case              -- put it together       currentItem = currentItem.char[2..currentItem.char.count]       newText = newText & specialChar & currentItem     end repeat     -- restore the itemDelimiter     the itemDelimiter = oldDelimiter     -- return the new string     return newText   else     -- return theText if its not a string     return theText   end if end