GetText

CompositeNode.GetText method

Gets the text of this node and of all its children.

public override string GetText()

Remarks

The returned string includes all control and special characters as described in ControlChar.

Examples

Shows the difference between calling the GetText and ToString methods on a node.

Document doc = new Document();

DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
builder.InsertField("MERGEFIELD Field");

// GetText will retrieve the visible text as well as field codes and special characters.
Assert.AreEqual("\u0013MERGEFIELD Field\u0014«Field»\u0015", doc.GetText().Trim());

// ToString will give us the document's appearance if saved to a passed save format.
Assert.AreEqual("«Field»", doc.ToString(SaveFormat.Text).Trim());

Shows how to output all paragraphs in a document that are list items.

Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

builder.ListFormat.ApplyNumberDefault();
builder.Writeln("Numbered list item 1");
builder.Writeln("Numbered list item 2");
builder.Writeln("Numbered list item 3");
builder.ListFormat.RemoveNumbers();

builder.ListFormat.ApplyBulletDefault();
builder.Writeln("Bulleted list item 1");
builder.Writeln("Bulleted list item 2");
builder.Writeln("Bulleted list item 3");
builder.ListFormat.RemoveNumbers();

NodeCollection paras = doc.GetChildNodes(NodeType.Paragraph, true);

foreach (Paragraph para in paras.OfType<Paragraph>().Where(p => p.ListFormat.IsListItem))
{ 
    Console.WriteLine($"This paragraph belongs to list ID# {para.ListFormat.List.ListId}, number style \"{para.ListFormat.ListLevel.NumberStyle}\"");
    Console.WriteLine($"\t\"{para.GetText().Trim()}\"");
}

See Also

CompositeNode.GetEnumerator CompositeNode.IndexOf