Are you piping in values that might contain quotes or something like that?

Yeah but this is in a loop and some of them do not have quotes and are still failing.

I think my issue is that because I am piping in an open-ended value, some of them have breaklines.

Is there a way I can remove the breakline before it gets called by my workflow? 

Hi,

Depending on the type of workflow and where/how it’s getting its data, you could use a code task or a basic transform task to remove line breaks with a regular expression.

For example, you could transform the text coming from a open-ended question before using it.

function codeTask() {

    var inputText = `${q://QID1/ChoiceGroup/SelectedChoicesTextEntry}`;
    var outputText = text.replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/g, '');

    return {
        result: outputText
    };
}

function codeTask() {

    var inputText = `${q://QID1/ChoiceGroup/SelectedChoicesTextEntry}`;
    var outputText = text.replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/g, '');

    return {
        result: outputText
    };
}

Thanks Vincent! I have tried but I still get an error. I think Qualtrics can’t load it in the ‘inputText’ variable at all because of the whitespace/breaklines.

You might need to clean your input before then. A bit hard to help you without knowing where it’s coming from.

If it’s coming from a survey response, you could clean it there with custom js in a question.

If it’s coming from a file in an ETL workflow, maybe you can use a transform task to clean it with a regex before processing it in the code task.

Thank you! I think that worked out - I used a transform task before my code.