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Landon Curt Noll 4ee4c731f7 convert markdown copyright TAB chars into SPACE chars
While not strictly necessary, replacing the two ASCII tab characters
in the markdown copyright comment makes it easier to detect problematic
TAB indentation within markdown files.

After this commit, only 90 markdown files have leading ASCII TAB
characters.  And again, while not strictly necessary, we can consider
running expand on those 90 markdown files to see what effect that
might have on the HTML files they produce.

Replace leading ASCII TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE
characters (the default action of the `expand(1)` tool) might have
an negative effect on some HTML formatting where **hack-a-round**
formatting was attempted to fix broken indentation caused by
problematic ASCII TAB characters.

Think of this as a baseline for evaluating leading
TAB characters within markdown files.

TODO: Consider either using `expand(1)` to replace leading ASCII
TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters AND/OR
modifying the appropriate `bin` tool to convert leading ASCII TAB
characters into multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters.
2024-06-22 22:15:25 -07:00

2.1 KiB

To build:

    make all

To use:

    ./garry <input_file >output_file

Try:

    ./try.sh

Alternate code:

While it may not have been the intention of the author, the judges noted that the C pre-processed version (with the #includes left intact) looked very much like a rat "dropping core". See garry.alt.c and judge for yourself!

Alternate build:

    make alt

Alternate use:

    ./garry.alt <input_file >output_file

Alternate try:

    ./try.alt.sh

Judges' remarks:

The author was kind enough to provide a less obfuscated version of the source called garry.fmt.c.

Author's remarks:

This program is a file filter, designed to do environment-expansion and incorporating the ability to create binary from escaped data in the environment variables.

The calling syntax is pretty simple, just use it with stdio-redirection or inside pipelines, e.g.:

    ./garry <file_to_convert >converted_file

or

    cat all_my_files/* | ./garry | lp

The syntax of the conversion of the input file is as follows: To include the value of an environment variable in the output file, place the name of the variable between $-signs in the input, e.g.:

    My Home-Directory is: $HOME$
    I'm using the path: $PATH$

Unknown Env-variables or malformed expressions are ignored and kept intact.

Additionally, the filter replaces escaped octal values in the environment variables by their binary representation, e.g.:

    $ TEST="\110\145\154\154\157"
    $ export TEST
    $ echo '$TEST$' | ./garry
    Hello