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Convenient single page to Zap extra spaces, commas, newlines, tabs in the text in a textarea (paragraph textbox) through different buttons
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zapper.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<head><title>Zap extra spaces, commas etc</title>
<style>
input {
width: 15em; height: 3em;
}
</style>
<body>
<form id="form1">
<table>
<tr width="100%">
<td>
<b>Input</b> text-box<br/>
<textarea name="input" id="box" cols="100" rows="30" ></textarea> <br>
<!-- onFocus="this.select();"-->
</td>
<td>
<input type="button" value="Zap all commas" accesskey="c" title="shortcut shift+alt+c" onClick="var THIS = document.getElementById('box').value; document.getElementById('box').value = THIS.split(',').join('');">
<br><br><br>
<input type="button" value="Zap all extra spaces" onClick="var THIS = document.getElementById('box').value; document.getElementById('box').value = THIS.replace(/\ {2,}/g, ' ');">
<br><br><br>
<input type="button" value="Zap all tabs" onClick="var THIS = document.getElementById('box').value; document.getElementById('box').value = THIS.split('\t').join(' ');">
<br><br><br>
<input type="button" value="Zap all newlines" onClick="var THIS = document.getElementById('box').value; document.getElementById('box').value = THIS.split('\n').join(' ');">
<br><br><br>
<input type="button" value="Zap all spaces, tabs, newlines" onClick="var THIS = document.getElementById('box').value; document.getElementById('box').value = THIS.replace(/\s{2,}/g, ' ').split('\t').join(' ');">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
<br><br>
<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1981349/regex-to-replace-multiple-spaces-with-a-single-space">Got from stackoverflow</a>, and elsewhere.
</body>
</html>
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