# Can't get script working
**URL:** https://community.silverbullet.md/t/cant-get-script-working/3565
**Category:** Lua
**Created:** [November 20, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/cant-get-script-working/3565 "2025-11-20T19:00:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Krishna-Sivakumar](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Krishna-Sivakumar)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/cant-get-script-working/3565/1 "2025-11-20T19:00:56Z")
Hello, I’m a new user (one day old) and I’d like to get a function working in my pages.
Let me know if this is not the spot to post these questions!
I added the following function within a page, and tried to call it with `${transform_calorie_text(...)}`, which didn’t really work (function is still nil). Am I supposed to do something more to make the function available? Do I have to declare this somewhere else?
```space-lua
function transform_calorie_text(text)
local result = {}
for line in text:gmatch("[^\r\n]+") do
local before, inside = line:match("^(.-)%((.-)%)$")
if before and inside then
inside = inside:gsub("c", "")
before = before:gsub("%s*$", "")
table.insert(result, before .. "\t=" .. inside)
end
end
return table.concat(result, "\n")
end
```
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### Author:  [@thepaperpilot](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/thepaperpilot)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/cant-get-script-working/3565/2 "2025-11-20T19:09:03Z")
if you haven’t already, run the `System: Reload` command
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### Author:  [@Krishna-Sivakumar](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Krishna-Sivakumar)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/cant-get-script-working/3565/3 "2025-11-20T19:19:25Z")
Nope, doesn’t help
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### Author:  [@Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Mr.Red)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/cant-get-script-working/3565/4 "2025-11-20T19:44:15Z")
it’s the “\t=” space-lua doesnt seems to recognise it.
you can see the red marker there, that means something is wrong with the syntax. If you wanted to add the literal tab character, try this:
```auto
table.insert(result, before .. string.char(9) .. "=" .. inside)
```
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### Author:  [@Krishna-Sivakumar](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Krishna-Sivakumar)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/cant-get-script-working/3565/5 "2025-11-20T19:47:45Z")
Ah, I didn’t realize. I tried this on another lua interpreter and it was ok. Thanks for the help!
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### Author:  [@mjf](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/mjf)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2025, 8:37am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/cant-get-script-working/3565/6 "2025-11-21T08:37:01Z")
Caused by bug. Fix [PR](https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/pull/1698)-ed.
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### Author:  [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2025, 8:37am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/cant-get-script-working/3565/7 "2025-11-21T08:37:27Z")
Just merged it, should be available on the edge builds soon.
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### Author:  [@Krishna-Sivakumar](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Krishna-Sivakumar)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/cant-get-script-working/3565/8 "2025-11-23T01:15:32Z")
that’s great! thanks a lot @mjf @zef