utility to "clean" odd characters in text input that seem to increase risk of json-transformation failures

utility to "clean" odd characters in text input that seem to increase risk of json-transformation failures

Usage

cleantxt(x)

Arguments

x

character(1) text from which non-alphabetic characters like brackets and parentheses are to be removed

Note

This is speculative; success rates appear to increase with no evident degradation of content interpretation.