Replace new line and double quotes in text answer.

@pbedekar Try this as code task:

function codeTask() {
    // Retrieve the value from the variable
    var originalValue = "${q://QID7/ChoiceTextEntryValue}";

    // Remove all new lines
    var newValue = originalValue.replace(/\n/g, "").replace(/\r/g, "");

    // Return the new value
    return {
        newValue: newValue
    };
}

Piped text can be included via {a} in your webservice call body. Replace the ${q://QID7/ChoiceTextEntryValue} with the newValue piped text.

Hi @chackbusch 

thanks for the code. but the code errors at assignment var originalValue = "${q://QID7/ChoiceTextEntryValue}" when there is new line in text. when I have one one line in QID7 answer it works fine.  

Thanks @chackbusch. I feel I am very close. with you code I can see the multile getting tranformed in one like with spaces. but the Embeded data is not being set. had to make a little change to get textarea to work.. i did put the window.alert right before setembededdata and newvalue is as expected but the embeded data is blank.

Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnReady(function() {
    var qid = this.questionId; 
    // Find the textarea element of current's question
 var textarea = document.querySelector("textarea");

    if (textarea) {
        // Add an event listener to detect changes in the textarea
          if (!textarea.dataset.listenerAdded) {
        textarea.addEventListener('input', function() {
            // Get the current value of the textarea
            var newValue = textarea.value;

            // Replace new lines with spaces
            var newValue = newValue.replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm, " ");
            // Save the value to an embedded data field
            Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData("Cleantext", newValue);
                    });
          }
    }
});

@pbedekar Did you define the embedded data Cleantext in the survey flow before your question block?

finally. I replaced setembededData with setJSEmbeded data and now it works. Thank you very very much @chackbusch 

Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnReady(function() {
    var qid = this.questionId; 
    // Find the textarea element of current's question
 var textarea = document.querySelector("textarea");

    if (textarea) {
        // Add an event listener to detect changes in the textarea
          if (!textarea.dataset.listenerAdded) {
        textarea.addEventListener('input', function() {
            // Get the current value of the textarea
            var newValue = textarea.value;

            // Replace new lines with spaces
            var newValue = newValue.replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm, ". ");
            // Save the value to an embedded data field
            Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setJSEmbeddedData("Cleantext", newValue);
              });
          }
    }
});

Hi @pbedekar, 

sorry, forgot that the behavior of the multi line and essay text entries is a little bit different. You should achieve it by adding a listener to the text area. Add some JavaScript to your question (independent of the actual question ID): 

Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnReady(function() {
	var qid = this.questionId; 

    // Find the textarea element of current's question
    var textarea = document.querySelector("#" + qid + " textarea");

    if (textarea) {
        // Add an event listener to detect changes in the textarea
        textarea.addEventListener('input', function() {
            // Get the current value of the textarea
			var newValue = textarea.value;

			// Replace new lines with spaces
			var newValue = newValue.replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm, " ");

            // Save the value to an embedded data field
            Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData("MY_TEXTAREA", newValue);
        });
    }
});

Before the value is stored, new lines are replaced by spaces. I added 3 lines: 

This log shows you an example of each execution of the custom code: 

This stores the current value of the text area in some embedded data field MY_TEXTAREA. The embedded data should be defined in the flow before your question. 

You can use this in your webservice call body. The single lines are just concatenated with space: 

This should avoid the error. 

Hope this answers your question! If so, please mark my answer as solution. :-)

Best
Christian

@chackbusch, great detailed answer!