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Newlines are dysfunctional in NS text fields
I spent quite a while getting newlines to work in emails that I sent out of my suitescripts. I eventually realized that NetSuite's internal representation for a newline is '<br />' This means you have to add that string to get a newline to appear in an email, even if the email is sent as plain text - very non-intuitive. Support had me try to add '\n\ and '\n\n' to my email strings, to no avail.
However, the problem gets worse. If you use pattern matching, the '$' character doesn't match the end of the line. It matches the end of the string, which is after the end of the line, even if the string contains a line, since there's still a '<br />' in the string at the end:
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