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I have some string in variable \somevar, eg. foo\\bar. How can I force LaTeX to ignore newline in \somevar. When I write content of the variable there should be

foo bar

and not

foo
bar
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Why do you store a newline in your variable if you don't want to display it? Maybe you need to make a wrapper around your macro to split the usage? – ℝaphink May 10 '11 at 12:23
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The variable is in document class. Content of the variable comes from user's document and user can put newlines there. One time I can print the variable with newline and another time the newlines are not acceptable but this is still the same text. – jesper May 10 '11 at 12:28
How about providing an option like \chapter does? You can write \chapter[alternative title]{title} where one can have newlines and the other can't. – ℝaphink May 10 '11 at 12:30

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Within the group that you are expanding the macro you can do 

\let\\=\relax

This will temporarily neuter the effect of \\.

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