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Text.ReplaceNewline

Replaces newline characters.

Component Version macOS Windows Server FileMaker Cloud FileMaker iOS SDK
Text 2.4 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

MBS( "Text.ReplaceNewline"; Text; Mode { ; Wrap } )

(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

Replaces newline characters.
Can remove, convert to Mac, Windows and Linux specific end of line characters. Also can remove duplicates.
FileMaker uses Mac line endings on all platforms.

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

Example Databases


Text.ReplaceAll   -   Text.Serialize

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