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--- action:Filter [2018/03/27 00:07] – JMichaelTX
+++ action:Filter [2022/12/28 23:16] (current) – ccstone
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 Select the filter to use from the //with// pop-up.
-The filters are:
+The __available filters__ are described in the [[manual:Filters|Filters]] user manual section.
-  * Remove Styles.
-  * Set line endings to Mac, Unix or Windows/DOS.
-  * Trim Whitespace.
-  * Hard wrap or unwrap paragraphs.
-  * Lowercase (all characters), Lowercase First (just the first character).
-  * Uppercase (all characters), Uppercase First (just the first character).
-  * Capitalize (all words) or Title Case (intelligently uppercase certain first letters).
-  * Change quotes to Smart, Dumb or French quotation marks.
-  * Encode HTML or non-ASCII HTML entities.
-  * Decode HTML entities.
-  * Generate an HTML list.
-  * Percent Encode or Decode for a URL.
-  * Quote for Applescript, Javascript, Shell Script or Swift.
-  * Get or delete the last path component or the path extension.
-  * Get the basename of the path (ie the name without directory or extension).
-  * Expand tilde (~) paths, or abbreviate with a tilde.
-  * Resolve symlinks, or standardize the path.
-  * Delete or bullet (•) control characters.
-  * Calculate an expression and return the result, see the Calculations section.
-  * Process Text Tokens and return the result, see the [[:Tokens|Text Tokens section]].
-  * Get the value of a named Variable or Named Clipboard.
-  * Count the characters, words or lines and return the result.
 Select where the result should go - back to the source or to a clipboard, variable or file. Prior to v8.0 the result was always saved back to the source.
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 is roughly equivalent to the Uppercase filter, for the System Clipboard, except that it only works with ASCII characters.
+Note that the definition of what a character, word, or line is is more than a little ambiguous, so if you have strict requirements for your definition you will need to calculate it yourself to ensure you get the answer you require.  For example, the line count will return the number of lines, with a minimum of one, which will not necessarily be the same as the number of end-of-line characters, and the number of characters may or may not count multi-plane unicode characters as one character, and we wont even attempt to define what is and isn’t a single word.
 ===== See Also =====
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+==== Actions ====
-=== Actions ===
+* [[Get File Attribute]]
+* [[Set File Attribute]]
 * [[:Actions|See all Actions]]
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 ==== Forum ====
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 - [[https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/potential-bug-with-titlecase-or-new-user-error/2235/3|Potential bug with Titlecase (or new user error)]]
 - [[https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/search-and-replace-paragraph-mark-in-clipboard-text/2310|Search and replace paragraph mark in clipboard text?]]
+- [[https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/filter-action-line-count-behaviour-is-odd/11679/11|Filter Action (Line Count) behaviour is odd]]
 - [[https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/create-a-macro-to-strip-html-tags-from-text/2918/5|Create a macro to strip HTML tags from text]]
 - [[https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/replace-special-characters-with-html-entities/3378/9|Replace special characters with HTML Entities?]]