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Adriaan
Adriaan

Reputation: 317

How can I export unformatted text from a rich edit control?

So I want to export all the lines to a .txt file when a button is pushed. I got it to work but it also adds some other stuff to the .txt file.

Code I used for the button richedit1.Lines.SaveToFile('output.txt');

Ok now lets say I typed this in the richedit

Line1 test
Line2 test
Line3 test

Then I press the button and i get this output

    {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang7177{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Tahoma;}}
    \viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs24 Line1 test\par
    Line2 test\par
    Line3 Test\par
    }

Is there any way to only show the lines in the richedit to the output.txt file?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2631

Answers (1)

Adriaan
Adriaan

Reputation: 317

Set the PlainText property of the rich edit control to True before calling SaveToFile.

The documentation for this property says:

Controls whether the rich edit control treats the text as plain text or rich text when streaming to or from a file.

To write the rich text in the control to a plain text file, set PlainText to true before streaming the text to a file. To ignore the rich text information encoded in a file, set PlainText to true before streaming the text to the control.

To stream in the rich text attributes encoded in a file, or save the encoding of the rich text attributes to a file, set PlainText to false.

Upvotes: 7

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