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Remove Whitespace

Description

This operation allows you to clean up text by eliminating unnecessary whitespace characters. This includes spaces, tabs, newlines, and other types of whitespace that might be present in your input data.

Data types

These are the input/output expected data types for this operation:

Input data

Output data

Parameters

These are the parameters you need to configure to use this operation (mandatory parameters are marked with a *):

Spaces

Set this parameter to true if you want to remove spaces from your input strings.

Carriage returns

Set this parameter to true if you want to remove carriage returns (\r) from your input strings.

Line feeds

Set this parameter to true if you want to remove line feeds (\n) from your input strings.

Tabs

Set this parameter to true if you want to remove tab characters (\t) from your input strings.

Form feeds

Set this parameter to true if you want to remove form feeds (\f) from your input strings.

Full stops

Set this parameter to true if you want to remove full stops (.) from your input strings.

Example

Suppose you want to remove spaces, line feeds and full stops from your input strings:

In your Pipeline, open the required Action configuration and select the input Field.
In the Operation field, choose Remove whitespace.
Set Spaces to true.
Set Carriage returns to false.
Set Line feeds to true.
Set Tabs to false.
Set Form feeds to false.
Set Full stops to true.
Give your Output field a name and click Save.

With the parameters set above, the following text:

  Hello   World!  
This is a   test.

will be transformed like this:

HelloWorld!Thisisatest

You can try out operations with specific values using the Input field above the operation. You can enter the value in the example above and check the result in the Output field.