Differences in content of Mtext returned

[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

[T.Willey]

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

[ccowgill]

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

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

(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

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