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From: Simon Geard <simon@whiteowl.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Remove new line char
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 10:07:35 +0000
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On 19/03/2025 11:47, alexandru wrote:
> I'm accessing the Windows clipboard using twapi.
> When the text in the clipboard was copied from an MS Excel cell, then
> text contains some new line char that I could not identify and thus
> unable to remove it using
> 
> regsub {[\r\n]+$} $text ""
> 
> What other way are there besides "string trim" to remove new line chars?
> 
> Many thanks
> Alexandru
> 
> -- 
Could this be an encoding issue? I remember that the default output from 
a Powershell is UTF-16 LE so maybe that's true of Excel (which I don't 
have so can't test).
Another thought is to create a list split on the unwanted newline 
character then reassemble it.

Simon