Remove Outer Whitespaces and Replace Inner Ones With a Space

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Description	This script will trim whitespace from the start and end of the copied text, and replace any whitespace within the text with a single space, and will auto-paste the results.
Language	C# (.Net)
Minimum Version	5.7+
Created By	Danail Branekov34799
Contributors	-
Date Created	May 7, 2020
Date Last Modified	May 7, 2020

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using System; using System.Text; using System.Collections.Generic; public static class ClipboardFusionHelper { public static string ProcessText(string text) { //copy whatever is selected to the clipboard //this will allow this macro to be used more quickly text = BFS.Clipboard.CopyText(); //make sure all of the line breaks are the same type text = text.Replace(Environment.NewLine, "\n"); text = text.Replace("\r", "\n"); text = text.Replace("\0", "\n"); //this will let us quickly build the string to return StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(); //split the text up into its separate lines string[] allLines = text.Split(new char[]{'\n'}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries); // Filter out lines that only contain whitespaces List<string> nonEmptyLines = new List<string>(); foreach (string line in allLines) { //this is probably redundant since we are removing empty entries //if the line variable is null or empty, continue to the next line if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(line)) continue; //if the line is blank, ignore it if(IsLineOnlyWhiteSpace(line)) continue; nonEmptyLines.Add(line); } for(int i = 0; i < nonEmptyLines.Count; i++) { string line = nonEmptyLines[i]; //add the trimmed line to the StringBuilder builder.Append(line.Trim()); // Append a space after each line, except after the last one if(i != allLines.Length) { builder.Append(" "); } } //paste the StringBuilder BFS.Clipboard.PasteText(builder.ToString()); //tell ClipboardFusion to put the StringBuilder on the clipboard return builder.ToString(); } //this is a set of blank characters private static readonly Dictionary<char, int> WhiteSpaceChars = new Dictionary<char, int> { {' ', 0}, {'\x0085', 0}, {' ', 0}, {' ', 0}, {' ', 0}, {' ', 0}, {' ', 0}, {' ', 0}, {' ', 0}, {' ', 0}, {' ', 0}, {' ', 0}, {' ', 0}, {' ', 0}, {' ', 0}, {'\x200B', 0}, {'　', 0}, {'\xFEFF', 0}, {'\v', 0}, {'\f', 0}, {'\x2028', 0}, {'\x2029', 0}, }; //this function returns true if a line is composed of only whitespace or blank characters private static bool IsLineOnlyWhiteSpace(string line) { foreach(char c in line) { if(!WhiteSpaceChars.ContainsKey(c)) return false; } return true; } }