plainText

Type

property

Summary

Returns the contents of a field chunk as plain text.

Syntax

set the plainText of [<chunk> of] <field> to <string>

get the plainText of [<chunk> of] <field>

Description

Use the plainText property to get the content of a field as plain text with any listStyle properties being converted appropriately into plain-text for the paragraphs the affect.

When you get a field's plainText, the field's text is converted to plain text with any listStyle property being converted appropriately into plain-text.

Any paragraphs with listStyle set are prefixed by an appropriate plain-text form of the bullet or index. The property returns text encoded in the native platform encoding with '?' replacing any non-convertible characters.

Examples

write the plainText of field 1 to file myTextFile

get the plainText of field "Field"
answer it with "okay"

put the plainText of word 2 to -2 of field "list"

Related

glossary: property

keyword: field

property: dontWrap, unicodePlainText, unicodeFormattedText, formattedText

Compatibility and Support

Introduced

LiveCode 4.6

OS

mac

windows

linux

Platforms

desktop

server