Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: RichText.ReadText

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RichText.ReadText

Read rich text from text.

Component	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	Server	FileMaker iOS SDK
RichText	4.4	Yes	No	No	Yes, macOS only	Yes

MBS( "RichText.ReadText"; text { ; Encoding } ) More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags

text The text for the text file. "Hello World"

Encoding The text encoding for text parameter.
Default is native.
Possible encoding names: ANSI, ISO-8859-1, Latin1, Mac, Native, UTF-8, DOS, Hex, Base64 or Windows. More listed in the FAQ. UTF8 Optional

Parameter	Description	Example	Flags
text	The text for the text file.	"Hello World"
Encoding	The text encoding for text parameter. Default is native. Possible encoding names: ANSI, ISO-8859-1, Latin1, Mac, Native, UTF-8, DOS, Hex, Base64 or Windows. More listed in the FAQ.	UTF8	Optional

Result

Returns OK or error.

Description

Read rich text from text.
This is for reading RTF text. Be sure to have right text encoding to preserve special characters.

To read styled text into RichText functions, please use RichText.SetFormattedText.

Example Databases

Mac only/RichText/RTF to formatted text

Blog Entries

MBS Filemaker Plugin, version 4.4pr7

Created 24th October 2014, last changed 4th January 2017

RichText.ReadRTF - RichText.ReadURL