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remove ascii text formatting

/ Published in: ActionScript 3
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This is useful if you are loading html-text via XML and want to remove additional line-breaks, newlines, formfeeds and tabs. It just leaves the clean html.

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  1. public static function removeAsciiFormatting(str:String):String {
  2. 	if (str != null) {
  3. 		var pattern:RegExp = /(\t|\n|\f|\r)*/gm; // remove tabs, newlines, formfeeds and returns
  4. 		return str.replace(pattern, '');
  5. 	} else {
  6. 	        return null;
  7. 	}
  8. }

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