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Container.GetText
Returns the text value of the container data.
Component | Version | macOS | Windows | Server | FileMaker Cloud | FileMaker iOS SDK |
Container | 7.2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Parameters
Parameter | Description | Example value |
---|---|---|
ContainerField | The container field or value to inspect. | MyTable::MyContainerField |
Name or Index | either the name of the Type or it's index | 0 |
Encoding | Optional The text encoding for result. Default is native. Possible encoding names: ANSI, Arabic-Mac, Arabic-Win, Baltic-Win, CentralEurope-Mac, ChineseSimp-Mac, ChineseSimp-Win, ChineseTrad-Mac, ChineseTrad-Win, Cyrillic-Mac, Cyrillic-Win, EasternEurope-Win, Greek-Mac, Greek-Win, Hebrew-Mac, Hebrew-Win, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-15, Korean-Johab, Korean-Mac, Korean-Win, Latin1, Mac, Native, ShiftJIS-Mac, ShiftJIS-Win, Turkish-Mac, Turkish-Win, UTF-8, DOS or Windows. Pass native to use the native encoding of the current platform. |
UTF8 |
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.
Examples
Show main item in container:
Show Custom Dialog ["Main item"; MBS("Container.GetText"; test::Test; "MAIN")]
Query text of XML file in a container:
Set Variable [ $text ; Value: MBS( "Container.GetText"; test::test; "FILE"; "UTF-8") ]
See also
- Container.GetBase64
- Container.GetCount
- Container.GetHeight
- Container.GetHex
- Container.GetName
- Container.GetSize
- Container.GetType
- Container.GetTypes
- Container.GetWidth
Blog Entries
Created 24th March 2017, last changed 23th February 2018
Container.GetSize - Container.GetTotalSize
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