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diff --git a/Bugzilla/Util.pm b/Bugzilla/Util.pm
index 21885bbdc..31a1052e4 100644
--- a/Bugzilla/Util.pm
+++ b/Bugzilla/Util.pm
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ use base qw(Exporter);
format_time format_time_decimal validate_date
file_mod_time is_7bit_clean
bz_crypt generate_random_password
- validate_email_syntax);
+ validate_email_syntax clean_text);
use Bugzilla::Config;
use Bugzilla::Constants;
@@ -390,6 +390,12 @@ sub is_7bit_clean {
return $_[0] !~ /[^\x20-\x7E\x0A\x0D]/;
}
+sub clean_text {
+ my ($dtext) = shift;
+ $dtext =~ s/[\x00-\x1F\x7F]/ /g; # change control characters to spaces
+ return $dtext;
+}
+
1;
__END__
@@ -639,6 +645,10 @@ into the string.
Returns true is the string contains only 7-bit characters (ASCII 32 through 126,
ASCII 10 (LineFeed) and ASCII 13 (Carrage Return).
+=item C<clean_text($str)>
+Returns the parameter "cleaned" by exchanging non-printable characters with spaces.
+Specifically characters (ASCII 0 through 31) and (ASCII 127) will become ASCII 32 (Space).
+
=back
=head2 Formatting Time