Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: Text.ReplaceNewline

Topics All Mac OS X (Only) Windows (Only) Linux (Only, Not) iOS (Only, Not)
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New in version: 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Statistic

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

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" ) ]

Example Databases

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

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