Easy way to remove formatting (e.g. linebreaks)

Question

I have defined the following shortcut for some text

\newcommand{\sometext}{text\\text\\text}

Now I would like to use this in some other place but with the linebreaks removed. So is there an easy way to do it (e.g. something like "\remove_linebreaks{\sometext}")?

Answer 1

This will change \\ into a space:

\newcommand{\removelinebreaks}[1]{%
  \begingroup\def\\{ }#1\endgroup}

\removelinebreaks{\sometext}