> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.cipherinspector.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Ignore Whitespace

> The "Ignore Whitespace" setting for ciphertexts.

export const SettingsPreStep = ({settingName}) => <div>
    <p>
      For all <a href="/ciphertext/encoding#Data encodings">data encodings</a>, the data is first decoded to a `Uint8Array` and then converted to
      a string based on its encoding type (ASCII, Latin1, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32). This step takes precedence over any other ciphertext settings,
      unless the widget evaluates the ciphertext bytes rather than the encoded text data.
    </p>
  </div>;

## Functional impact

When toggling on the "ignore whitespace" setting for the ciphertext, whitespace characters are removed before analysis.

<SettingsPreStep settingName="ignore whitespace" />