Scripting - how to read a plain text string from a big text box?

[Former Member]

HI!

I have a script requirement to read the text from a big text box.

I have found a function called "getTextString(session)" which does do this but it returns an html formatted string with lots of formatting information wrapped around the payload string...

Does anyone know of a way to get just the plain text string returned without any formatting?

Thanks!

[Former Member]

Hi,

try getTextPreview(). This would return the first 1000 characters without formatting information. If this is not sufficient guess you may have to do some custom code there..

Thanks,

Baski

[Former Member]

I'm afraid getTextPreview() does not seem to be available in Version 7, but thanks for the suggestion.

Doing some more research ourselves we have found another class named com.sap.eso.api.doccommon.ont.types.BigTextValueIBeanIfc which has a function to get the string value called "getValueAsString()" but I have no idea how to access this object...

Thanks,

Stuart

[Former Member]

My mistake... Looks like a such an api doesn't exist..

You can potentially use java regex api do something simillar i guess..

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/HTML/HTML_to_Plain_Text.aspx This examples seems complex but you can trim it down and make it simpler than this.

Thanks, Baski