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Remove Invalid Characters

This is a convenience statement to replicate the functionality of the Remove Invalid Characters item on the Yate Transformations menus.

The effect of the Remove Invalid Characters functionality is context dependent. Two different transformations are performed depending on whether a field is single or multi line.

Single Line Transformation

The following steps are performed:
Multi Line Transformation

The following steps are performed:

When modifying the Comments, Lyrics, Terms of Use, Commercial Information Webpage, Official Artist/Performer Webpage or Rating fields only the default items are modified. If you would like the operation to modify all of items for any of these field types, select the Deep option. The option has no effect on other field types or named variables. Note that User Defined Text Info and User Defined URL items will only be processed if the deep option is specified.

When operating on fields, each field will have the transformation appropriate for its type performed. The following field types are considered as being multi line: Comments, Involved People, Lyrics, Musician Credits, Show Description, Terms of Use and Video Description. All other fields and named variables are by default considered to be single line items.

You can override the default field processing and implicitly force single or multi line processing by changing the drop down control from Default to Single Line or Multi Line.