Twig: Can't figure out how to remove / replace ` `

[su-narthur]

I need to replace   with normal spaces so that |trim will work as expected. However, neither copying the   char into a |replace filter nor literally writing ' ' work. How can I do this?

[stof]

writing the HTML entity literally won't help you to replace the non-breaking space char, as they're not the same strings (HTML entities gets replaced by their corresponding char only when parsing HTML).

To replace chars, use a string containing a non-breaking space for the replacement. Copy-pasting may not work fine, as your software might turn it into a normal space at some point of the process (and it would probably hurt maintenance due to not being visible that it's not a normal space). Using an escape sequence is a safer solution. See https://twigfiddle.com/nn8ss5 for an example.

[su-narthur]

@stof Hey, fantastic, that works! I never knew about escape sequences before. That's super useful.

[stof]

Well, it looks like supported escape sequences are not documented in the place describing string literals (except saying that backslashes need escaping): https://twig.symfony.com/doc/2.x/templates.html#literals

The escape sequences in Twig string literals are the one supported by https://secure.php.net/stripcslashes

[iamsahilralkar]

First, get your whole HTML div and convert it to the string

convertHtmlToText(str)
{
   str = str.toString();
  return str.replace(/<[^>]*(>|$)|&nbsp;|&zwnj;|&raquo;|&laquo;|&gt;/g, ' ');
}

you will get the text without HTML tag and &nbsp etc

This is a solution for HTML tag and &nbsp etc and you can remove the useless conditions

[Adgivi]

First I hope you know the actual difference between this two characters. If you do and you still need the replacement you can do it with a custom filter:

public function clearNbsp($str)
{
    $entities = str_replace(' ', ' ', htmlentities($str));
    return html_entity_decode($entities);
}

[MichaelBrauner]

{{ text|striptags|raw }}

Important is, that the striptags come before the |raw filter.