Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: Container.GetText

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Container.GetText

Returns the text value of the container data.

Component	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	Server	FileMaker iOS SDK
Container	7.2	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

MBS( "Container.GetText"; Container; Name or Index { ; Encoding } ) More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags

Container The container field or value to inspect. MyTable::MyContainerField

Name or Index either the name of the Type or it's index 0

Encoding The text encoding for result.
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
Container	The container field or value to inspect.	MyTable::MyContainerField
Name or Index	either the name of the Type or it's index	0
Encoding	The text encoding for result. 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 text or error.

Description

Returns the text value of the container data.
You must tell the plug-in which of the types in the container field you want to use. You can use either it's name (JPEG, TIFF, PNGf etc) or it's index. The index is from 0 to the count of types -1 You can use Container.GetCount to return the count of types in the container.
You can pass index zero and get data form references file in case container is a file reference.