diff --git a/code/__HELPERS/text.dm b/code/__HELPERS/text.dm
index 5b720291b48..fc00a9dcf3b 100644
--- a/code/__HELPERS/text.dm
+++ b/code/__HELPERS/text.dm
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
 	return copytext(sqltext, 2, lentext(sqltext));//Quote() adds quotes around input, we already do that
 
 /proc/format_table_name(table as text)
-	return sqlfdbktableprefix + table	
-	
+	return sqlfdbktableprefix + table
+
 /*
  * Text sanitization
  */
@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@
 //Removes a few problematic characters
 /proc/sanitize_simple(var/t,var/list/repl_chars = list("\n"="#","\t"="#"))
 	for(var/char in repl_chars)
-		replacetext(t, char, repl_chars[char])
+		t = replacetext(t, char, repl_chars[char])
 	return t
-	
+
 /proc/readd_quotes(var/t)
 	var/list/repl_chars = list(""" = "\"")
 	for(var/char in repl_chars)
@@ -210,12 +210,11 @@ proc/checkhtml(var/t)
 /proc/replacetextEx(text, find, replacement)
 	return list2text(text2listEx(text, find), replacement)
 #endif
-
 /proc/replace_characters(var/t,var/list/repl_chars)
 	for(var/char in repl_chars)
 		t = replacetext(t, char, repl_chars[char])
-	return t	
-	
+	return t
+
 //Adds 'u' number of zeros ahead of the text 't'
 /proc/add_zero(t, u)
 	while (length(t) < u)
@@ -320,7 +319,7 @@ proc/checkhtml(var/t)
 	for(var/i = length(text); i > 0; i--)
 		new_text += copytext(text, i, i+1)
 	return new_text
-	
+
 //This proc strips html properly, but it's not lazy like the other procs.
 //This means that it doesn't just remove < and > and call it a day.
 //Also limit the size of the input, if specified.
@@ -350,7 +349,7 @@ proc/checkhtml(var/t)
 
 /proc/trim_strip_html_properly(var/input, var/max_length = MAX_MESSAGE_LEN)
     return trim(strip_html_properly(input, max_length))
-	
+
 //Used in preferences' SetFlavorText and human's set_flavor verb
 //Previews a string of len or less length
 /proc/TextPreview(var/string,var/len=40)
@@ -365,10 +364,10 @@ proc/checkhtml(var/t)
 //alternative copytext() for encoded text, doesn't break html entities (&#34; and other)
 /proc/copytext_preserve_html(var/text, var/first, var/last)
 	return html_encode(copytext(html_decode(text), first, last))
-	
+
 //Run sanitize(), but remove <, >, " first to prevent displaying them as &gt; &lt; &34; in some places, after html_encode().
 //Best used for sanitize object names, window titles.
 //If you have a problem with sanitize() in chat, when quotes and >, < are displayed as html entites -
 //this is a problem of double-encode(when & becomes &amp;), use sanitize() with encode=0, but not the sanitizeSafe()!
 /proc/sanitizeSafe(var/input, var/max_length = MAX_MESSAGE_LEN, var/encode = 1, var/trim = 1, var/extra = 1)
-	return sanitize(replace_characters(input, list(">"=" ","<"=" ", "\""="'")), max_length, encode, trim, extra)	
\ No newline at end of file
+	return sanitize(replace_characters(input, list(">"=" ","<"=" ", "\""="'")), max_length, encode, trim, extra)
\ No newline at end of file