Simple action to combine lines of text?

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Hello—I am still a javascript novice, and would like to create an action that takes a multiple-line selection, combines the lines, and replaces the selection. I currently do this by round-tripping a selection to a Shortcut that uses the Combine Text action, and returns to Drafts. But Shortcuts is so buggy and unreliable that it freezes about a quarter of the time. I’d love to have this line-combining happen in Drafts itself. I’ve looked through @sylumer indispensable TADpoLe library, but can’t find anything that does this line concatenation.

Thanks in advance for the help!

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It sounds like you want to remove newline characters in the selection. If that’s the case, this line of JavaScript should suffice.

editor.setSelectedText(editor.getSelectedText().replaceAll("\n",""));
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That works brilliantly! Thanks @sylumer!

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Just a quick follow-up that, in certain cases (like when I have copied and pasted lines from a pdf), the \n wouldn’t work so I added a second script to the action:

editor.setSelectedText(editor.getSelectedText().replaceAll("\r"," "));