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cleanAndPlainText ( theText )

trims leading and trailing spaces and return characters and tab characters, and removes text styling at the same time

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Peter Gort - Show more from this author

  Function definition: (Copy & paste into FileMaker's Edit Custom Function window)

//Peter Gort Let([ cleanText = Evaluate ( Quote ( theText ) ); tabCharacter = Char(9); firstCharacter = Left ( cleanText; 1 ) ; lastCharacter = Right ( cleanText; 1 ) ]; Case ( ( firstCharacter = " ") or ( firstCharacter = "¶") or ( firstCharacter = tabCharacter ) ; cleanAndPlainText ( Right ( cleanText ; Length ( cleanText ) - 1 ) ) ; ( lastCharacter = " ") or ( lastCharacter = "¶") or ( lastCharacter = tabCharacter ); cleanAndPlainText ( Left ( cleanText ; Length ( cleanText ) - 1 ) ) ; cleanText )//case )//let Click to copy

Calls itself recursively while any leading or trailing character is a space, tab, or return character and removes text styling at the same time.

 

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