How to Remove tab spacing...

[Mick282]

Hi all,

So I'm stuck. I've got a array variable that contains a list of special characters that I'll apply to each and remove from a string by using the replace() expression and looping through the array. I've now come across a speed bump... I noticed some of the strings contain tab spacing. So not just normal spacing but tab spacing.

I tried adding into my array things like '\t' or just entering tab to replace it with null but it's not working. The tab spacing is still there. Any way of replacing tab spacing?

The annoying tab spacing. You can't see it in the string but it's there in the raw output.

[Achavan]

Hi @Mick282 ,

try this

output -

[v-litu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Mick282,

Cause Unicode of "tab" is 9, uniform resource identifier is %09, so you could use uriComponent function to encode the string, then use replace function to remove these "%09" in the encoded string, then use decodeUriComponent function decode it, then it will return the string that has no tab:

decodeUriComponent(replace(uriComponent(outputs('Get_file_content_using_path')?['body']),'%09',''))

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Community Support Team _ Lin Tu
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