Hi all,In a side-by-side question, I have participants inputting (a) some text in an essay box, and (b) a numerical rating from a drop-down. I then use some JavaScript to (a) sort numerical responses into ascending order, and (b) set Qualtrics embedded data based on the text of largest 3 numerical ratings. Everything works fine unless a user inputs a line break or quotation mark in their response, in which case the code breaks & nothing displays.Anyone know how I can remove line breaks and quotation marks from the user input? I tried this:function cleanText(input_string) { input_string = input_string.replaceAll(/(\\r\\n|\\n|\\r)/gm,""); input_string = input_string.replaceAll("\\"", "\\'"); return (input_string);}var text1 = "${q://QID34%231/ChoiceTextEntryValue/1/1}";text1 = cleanText(text1)But this didn't work. My suspicion is that it breaks at the point of initializing the variable text1 if it contains a line break or quotation mark.I'm rather novice at JS, the sorting function for the matrix was with the help of a friend.Thank you in advance!

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/47276#Comment_47276Remove the line breaks and double quotes in the addOnPageSubmit() function attached to the Side-by-Side question. That way it will be saved without line breaks and quotes. Something like:Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnPageSubmit(function() { var input = jQuery("#"+this.questionId+" InputText").first(); input.val(input.val().replace(/\\s+/g," ").replace(/\\"/g,"'"));});

@MatthewM- Somehow in the transition to the new Community platform, the regex got double escaped, which brokeit. It should be:Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnPageSubmit(function() {var input = jQuery("#"+this.questionId+" .InputText").first();input.val(input.val().replace(/\s+/g," ").replace(/\"/g,"'"));});

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