CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
Strips Tab, Line Feed, Form Feed, Carriage Return, and non-breaking space (ASCII 160) from strings. Reduces all space characters to a single occurrence.

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfset Test = "a#chr(10)#
b#chr(10)##chr(12)#
#CHR(9)##CHR(9)##CHR(9)#c#chr(13)#
#chr(32)##chr(32)##chr(32)##chr(32)##chr(32)#d#chr(13)#
#chr(160)##chr(160)##chr(160)##chr(160)##chr(160)#e">

<cfoutput>
multi-line<br>
<textarea>#Test#</textarea><br>
single line<br>
<textarea>#singleLine(test)#</textarea>
</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

/**
 * Strips characters that cause line wrap when exporting.
 * 
 * @param s      String to modify. (Required)
 * @return Returns a string. 
 * @author James Moberg (james@ssmedia.com) 
 * @version 0, December 13, 2010 
 */
function singleLine(s){
    s = replacelist(s, "#chr(9)#,#chr(10)#,#chr(12)#,#chr(13)#,#chr(160)#", " , , , , ");
    return trim(reReplace(s, "[[:space:]]{2,}", " ", "all"));
}