[TF] Request for function.

[fbneal at mac.c. (B. Neal)]

At 11:26 +0200 4/2/03, Stefan Linnemann wrote:
>Hello, once more,
>
>I have some variables, set from world input, that contain colour codes
>as well as the value I seek.  Now i'm trying to program a function to
>strip the colour codes from the variable, and leave only the rest.
>Alas my programming skills seem to desert me on this, all I achieve is
>either an infinite loop or the value 1.
>
>Setting the emulation to ansi_strip is no solution, because much more
>than the three values I capture are coloured, adn that helps
>tremendously in recognising what to look for in play.  It's only these
>few values, that need their colours stripped.
>
>The problem is as follows:
>	there are one or two colour codes sequences at the start in the
>variable, there may be a colour code sequence at the end.
>	Solution:
>Step 1: Find escape character, if found, find first letter "m" after
>that, call the position of this "m": i.
>Step 2: From position after "i", search next escape char.  If this is
>not the following character, the wanted value lies between.  If no
>eacape character is found, the wanted value is from i+1 to end of
>string.
>--  There ar no other escape sequences in the string, only those colour
>codes sequences.
>-- So far the only colour code sequences are invariably of the form
>\033[..m, with two cyphers at the dots.  Two colour codes at the start
>means twice this sequence.
>
>I should be able to program this myself, but I seem to misunderstand
>several basic characteristics of Tinyfugue.
>
>Your help would be enormously appreciated.
>
>Stefan.

Maybe I'm missing something here,  but it seems that maybe the place 
to tackle this is where you set the var initially, instead of trying 
hackery ex post facto.

B




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