Removing line returns in Visual Build

[feiock]

In my failure step, I call a VBscript where I pass the system macro
%LASTSTEP_OUTPUT%. Unfortuneatly some 3rd party apps we use put line returns in their error messages. This causes the string that is in %LASTSTEP_OUTPUT% to also contain these line returns. So then when my script is called, it is not able to accept the parameters correctly. Has anyone else come across this issue, and what did you do to get around it?

Thanks