unicodePlainText

Type

property

Summary

Returns the contents of a field chunk as plain text.

Syntax

set the unicodePlainText of [chunk of] field to string

get the unicodePlainText of [chunk of] field

Description

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

When you get a field's unicodePlainText, 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 UTF-16 in host byte-order.

Important: As this property is deprecated, it should not be used in new code; simply get the plainText as normal. The following are now equivalent:

    get the unicodePlainText of field 1
    get textEncode(the plainText of field 1, \"UTF16\")

Examples

write the unicodePlainText of field 1 to file myTextFile

put word 1 to 3 of the unicodePlainText of field "lorem" into tFirstThreeWords

Related

property: plainText, dontWrap, unicodeFormattedText, formattedText

Compatibility and Support

Introduced

LiveCode 4.6

OS

mac

windows

linux

Platforms

desktop

server