code fence cleanup - finding broken code fences

README.md

Superseded by a larger gist, CodeFenceCleanup.

Here's expand.py in that other gist.

License: Like that one, this gist is likewise offered under CC0.

expand.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Expand (what's intended to be) a T-SQL expression for searching."""


def expand(text, pattern, replacement, min_count, max_count):
    """Expands \n and a single replacement with repetitions."""
    for count in range(min_count, max_count + 1):
        print(text.replace(pattern, replacement * count)
                  .replace(r'\n', "' + CHAR(10) + '")
                  .replace(r'\N', "' + CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) + '"))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    expand(text=r"OR ph.Text LIKE '%\n```{}[^a-z\N]%'",
           pattern=r'{}',
           replacement=r'[^\N]',
           min_count=0,
           max_count=8)