From 85bfb688862e78d5879df6973b88ba8023fa6086 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kelly Brazil <kellyjonbrazil@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:33:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] history parser fixes

---
 README.md             |  8 ++++----
 jc/parsers/history.py | 17 +++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2242d0e6..96a6536f 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -162,10 +162,10 @@ $ free | jc --free -p
 ```
 $ history | jc --history -p
 {
-  "118": "sleep 100",
-  "119": "ls /bin",
-  "120": "echo \"hello\"",
-  "121": "docker images",
+  "n118": "sleep 100",
+  "n119": "ls /bin",
+  "n120": "echo \"hello\"",
+  "n121": "docker images",
   ...
 }
 ```
diff --git a/jc/parsers/history.py b/jc/parsers/history.py
index 2c168282..a2b02450 100644
--- a/jc/parsers/history.py
+++ b/jc/parsers/history.py
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ Example:
 
 $ history | jc --history -p
 {
-  "118": "sleep 100",
-  "119": "ls /bin",
-  "120": "echo \"hello\"",
-  "121": "docker images",
+  "n118": "sleep 100",
+  "n119": "ls /bin",
+  "n120": "echo \"hello\"",
+  "n121": "docker images",
   ...
 }
 """
@@ -26,7 +26,12 @@ def parse(data):
 
     if cleandata:
         for entry in cleandata:
-            parsed_line = entry.split(maxsplit=1)
-            output[parsed_line[0]] = parsed_line[1]
+            try:
+                parsed_line = entry.split(maxsplit=1)
+                # prepend a alpha character n to be more json compliant
+                output['n' + parsed_line[0]] = parsed_line[1]
+            except IndexError:
+                # need to catch indexerror in case there is weird input from prior commands
+                pass
 
     return output