Filtering out Returns from webpage & pdf txt

[Guy_]

I'd like all Returns to disappear in my saved clipboard text, mainly from webpages and pdf files.

I've tried

$savedClip = ClipGet()
$savedClip = StringStripCR ( StringStripWS ( $savedClip, 3 ))

and it does something I want, but never seems to strip returns from web text...(haven't tried pdf yet)

None of the parameters seem to do that?

(btw, the manual uses the 3 parameter but doesn't document it on the StringStripWS page?)

Do I need a whole routine like this trimmer maybe?

Thank you

Edited October 10, 2012 by Guy_

[BrewManNH]

3 means add options 1 and 2 together, strip leading and trailing whitespace.

PDFs aren't text so it's not going to remove anything from them. The HTML files use <br> or <P> for end of line carriage returns, the actual line endings have no meaning for the most part as far as HTML goes, they're just coded text files. This is my understanding of how HTML works, I don't write web pages so I'm not 100% sure.

[Guy_]

Thx for "3"

I don't think these html codes are copied from a webpage? You're copying text after all, not from the source html?

I used to filter out these returns when I used to use a FileMaker database, and it worked on both web text and text copied from pdf. So I would think it's the same character that needs filtering - just need to know which one and how best to do it.

When I know, I could use StringReplace I guess, but I would suspect there were built-in functions that really worked

Edited October 10, 2012 by Guy_

[BrewManNH]

Post what you have coded so far so that we can see what you're doing and where there might be an error in that. Even if it doesn't work as intended, we will at least have an idea of where to start.

[Guy_]

It's as simple as I quoted essentially...

I select a piece of text and then essentially...

Send("^c")

$savedClip = ClipGet()

$savedClip = StringStripCR ( StringStripWS ( $savedClip, 3 ))

ClipPut( $savedClip )

WinActivate("WordPad")

Send("^v")

I've tried the stripping functions seperately too, but a CR is never stripped AFAIK

Edited October 10, 2012 by Guy_

[BrewManNH]

You could do it this way.

$savedClip = StringReplace( $savedClip, @CRLF, "")

The way you have it written, it is only removing the last CRLF and not all of them. The clipboard text is considered to be one string, regardless of how many lines you have in it, and you're only removing the trailing and leading WS.

[Guy_]

With a space, it seems to be working perfectly for my needs now. TYVM

$savedClip = StringReplace( $savedClip, @CRLF, " ")