I am having trouble removing line breaks from my text in javascript. Here is an example of the data I am working with:

0: "Christian Pulisic"
1: "↵"
2: "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
3: "↵" 
4: "Christian Pulisic"
5: "↵"
6: "Personal information"
7: "↵"
8: "Full name   Christian Mate Pulisic[1]"

Obviously, the line spaces/breaks or whatever you call them, are polluting the data I am getting.

I cannot get the following function to recognize the line breaks and replace it with a "" which I then can very easily remove from the array through another function I run my data through.

This is the code I am currently using that is not working:

for (i in cleanArray){
    cleanArray[i].replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm,"")
};

console.log(cleanArray);

I am having trouble removing line breaks from my text in javascript. Here is an example of the data I am working with:

0: "Christian Pulisic"
1: "↵"
2: "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
3: "↵" 
4: "Christian Pulisic"
5: "↵"
6: "Personal information"
7: "↵"
8: "Full name   Christian Mate Pulisic[1]"

Obviously, the line spaces/breaks or whatever you call them, are polluting the data I am getting.

I cannot get the following function to recognize the line breaks and replace it with a "" which I then can very easily remove from the array through another function I run my data through.

This is the code I am currently using that is not working:

for (i in cleanArray){
    cleanArray[i].replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm,"")
};

console.log(cleanArray);

• javascript
• arrays
• regex
• line-breaks

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• 1 The replace() method returns a new string, it doesn't change the original one. – nnnnnn Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 3:15

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cleanArray[i].replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm,"") will return a new string. Furthermore, strings are immutable in JavaScript. Change it to

for(var i = 0; i < cleanArray.length; ++i)
    cleanArray[i] = cleanArray[i].replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm,"")

Assuming the characters shown as "↵" are actual newlines

Use Array#filter with String#trim

var newArr = arr.filter(el => el.trim());