Differences in content of Mtext returned

Hi,
I am looking to extract the contents of a piece of mtext.
Would anybody have any ideas why, when using this line of code to select mtext :

(setq AddText (cdr (assoc 1 (entget (car (entsel "nPlease Select Text :"))))))

that it returns a value of : {fArial|b0|i0|c238|p34;C}11 on some pieces of mtext
and in other cases it returns the contents of the text without all without all the stuff
between the {}, which is what I am actually looking for?

I have attached a sample of two pieces of mtext to demonstrate.

Thanks in Advance.

John

Look in the help files for formatting MText. The string contains the formatting that is applied to the MText object.

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Originally Posted by jmcshane

Hi,
I am looking to extract the contents of a piece of mtext.
Would anybody have any ideas why, when using this line of code to select mtext :

(setq AddText (cdr (assoc 1 (entget (car (entsel "nPlease Select Text :"))))))

that it returns a value of : {fArial|b0|i0|c238|p34;C}11 on some pieces of mtext
and in other cases it returns the contents of the text without all without all the stuff
between the {}, which is what I am actually looking for?

I have attached a sample of two pieces of mtext to demonstrate.

Thanks in Advance.

John

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Try part of this, I use it to strip text in tables to the default font

Code:

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(foreach dp EntDxf
(if (= (car dp) 1)
(if (= (wcmatch (cdr dp) "`{*") T)
        (progn
        (setq leftside (vl-string-left-trim
        "{\\abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ|0123456789 "
        (cdr dp)
                ) ;_ end of vl-string-left-trim
        leftside2 (vl-string-left-trim ";" leftside)
        rightside (vl-string-right-trim "}" leftside2)
        ) ;_ end of setq
        (setq EntDxf (subst (cons 1 rightside) dp EntDxf))
        (entmod EntDxf)
        (entupd (cdr (assoc -1 EntDxf)))
        )        ;end progn
)        ;end if
)        ;end if

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"RIGHTSIDE" is the variabl or part that you want, it contains the text without all that other "junk"