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AS3 HTML clean up

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AS3 does some weird things with HTML. Here are a few ways to handle common problems. The worst offender that many people encounter is double carriage returns. Regex those nasty buggers into oblivion (aka \n)!

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  1. var copyHTML:String = some_value_from_a_database_or_something_containing_html;
  2. copyHTML = copyHTML.replace(/
  3. /gm, "\n"); // fix double carriage returns 
  4. copyHTML = copyHTML.replace(/’/g, "’"); // fix nasty apostrophes 
  5. copyHTML = copyHTML.replace(/—/g, "—"); // fix evil en-dashes
  6. copyHTML = copyHTML.replace(/–/g, "–"); // fix abominable em-dashes
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  9. var tf:TextField = new TextField();
  10. tf.htmlText = copyHTML; // drink a beer

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