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Which strings exactly are removed from Views? Author: Mitra (based on info from Honza) AA version: 2.6

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There was changed behavior of string removing in AA v2.6. Now we use much easier steps:

1. unalias (expand) whole text (replace aliases and any other AA expressions)
2. remove all specified remove strings

Removing of stings works before alias substitution - it never replaces the text filled by user in the field. If you have

=> _#HEADLINE (_#AUTHOR##)

and remove string "()", than it first looks for empty alias content and then removes such aliases.

Let _#HEADLINE = "Hi Ann"
and _#AUTHOR## = "" (empty)

In first step the emtpty aliases are removed:

=> _#HEADLINE ()

Then the "remove strings" are removed:

=> _#HEADLINE

and then the remaining aliases are substituted.

Last Edit: Aug 17 2011

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