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Text.ReplaceNewline

Replaces newline characters.

(old name: String.ReplaceNewline)

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Example value
Text	The text to process.	"Hello World"
Mode	The operation mode. First a value for the output newline type: 0 = nothing, 1 = CR (Mac), 2 = LF (Unix), 3 = CRLF (Windows), 4 = <br> for html, 5 = <br /> for xml. Second you can add 8 to remove duplicate newlines.
Wrap	Optional Optional whether to wrap lines longer than given number of characters. Default is 0 for no wrap.	80

Result

Text with modified newline characters.

Description

Examples

Remove newlines from field:

MBS( "Text.ReplaceNewline"; Test Database::TextField; 0 )

Replaces newlines from field with Mac newlines:

MBS( "Text.ReplaceNewline"; Test Database::TextField; 1 )

Replaces newlines from field with Mac newlines and remove duplicates:

MBS( "Text.ReplaceNewline"; Test Database::TextField; 1+8 )

Write UTF-8 CRLF file:

Set Variable [ $text ; Value: "Joe,1234 Main St.¶John Glen,3132 Elm¶Johnson,5233 Wreybird¶Ray,263 Birch¶äöü" ]
Set Variable [ $path ; Value: "/Users/cs/Desktop/test.txt" ]
Set Variable [ $text ; Value: MBS( "Text.ReplaceNewline"; $text; 3) // CRLF ]
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS( "Text.WriteTextFile"; $text; $path; "UTF8" ) ]

See also

• Hash.SHA256
• Hash.SHA256.HMAC
• Hash.SHA512
• Hash.SHA512.HMAC
• SendMail.PrepareCURL
• SendMail.SetHTMLText
• Shell.Execute
• Shell.ReadOutputText
• Text.AppendTextFile
• Text.EncodeToHTML
• Text.ReadEMLXFile
• Text.ReadTextFile
• Text.RemoveControlCharacters
• Text.RemoveNewLine
• Text.WriteTextFile

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• CURL/Email/IMAP Email Upload
• CURL/SFTP/CURL sFTP Operations
• Network/HTTP Server hosted
• Network/HTTP Server local
• Shell/Shell Ping
• Shell/Shell
• Text functions/Write Text File
• WebViewer/Google Translation

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Created 18th August 2014, last changed 3th August 2017

Text.ReplaceAll   -   Text.Serialize

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