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alexandru.dadalau@meshparts.de (alexandru) posted:

> 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
> 
> --

These applications may insert all manner of invisible characters. Yesterday,
a colleague copied some source code from a PowerPoint presentation and that 
turned out to be riddled with invisible characters that in an editor showed 
up as "Â". 

So it goes, to quote Kurt Vonnegut.