tidyString

Parameters

• value The String to tidy
• settings(optional) The operations to perform when tidying, using a Map<String, Boolean>
  

  The tidy settings and their default values are given below. If a key is missing in the settings map, that operation will not be performed.

  Map Key	Default Value	Description of operation performed
  trim	true	Trims whitespace from values
  convertNullStringToLiteral	true	Converts the string 'null' (without quotes) to the null literal (unless it has quotes around it, such as "null")
  convertLinks	true	Preserves links by converting <a href="link">text</a> to text (link), will try to resolve urls if scrapeableFile isn't null. Note that if there isn't a start and end <a> tag, this will do nothing
  removeTags	true	Remove html tags, and attempts to convert line break HTML tags such as <br> to a new line in the result
  removeSurroundingQuotes	true	Remove quotes from values surrounded by them -- "value" becomes value
  convertEntities (professional and enterprise editions only)	true	Convert html entities
  removeNewLines	false	Remove all new lines from the text. Replaces them with a space
  removeMultipleSpaces	true	Convert multiple spaces to a single space, and preserve new lines
  convertBlankToNull	false	Convert blank strings to null literal

• scrapeableFile (optional) The current ScrapeableFile, used for resolving relative URLs when tidying links

Return Values

The tidied string

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