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Does anyone know of a configurable nesting script?
Even if it's not in AHK...

I've got to maintain a bunch of code in a proprietary database. It's got it's own functions and structure that is Vaguely SQLish but different enough that none of the SQL formating apps or adons for notepadd++ work on it. The format in the database is just one long string and completely formatted.

I can't seem to find anything that's just configurable by the user, but I can't believe no-ones run into this problem before.

I suppose I can parse through the string with AHK an replace ( and ) with line feeds and tabs... count the tabs and subtract them on the way down, etc... but I figured I'd ask here before I reinvent the wheel.

I may not be understanding your question, but have you tried Regular Expressions?

And you can make your own formatting rules in Notepad++ (search for userDefineLang.xml)

I'm not understanding your question either :-p

Here's what my code comes out of the database like:
Count(Distinct if((people.initial_phone IS NULL),people.initial_phone))

and I want to script the nesting of this so it's more readable:






or something to that effect.

Oh, I see now. The code format looks like Lisp... you might find something by searching for Lisp beautifiers and such. Then again, it'd probably be faster just to make your own reformatting script. Thankfully, the loop-through-it-and-count method isn't hard to create.

Look up StringReplace.

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Yea, I know about string replace. But if I want to keep track of the nesting I'm fairly sure I'll need to parse through the entire string one character at a time. Otherwise I'll only have a single indent for every (.

I did look up beautifiers and pretty printers... there are many... but they are sadly all command line which is about worthless.

I'm getting somewhere with it, but it's not adding up my tabs.

anyone know why?

never mind, I just realize my approach is all wrong.