text:string

List of:	Scheme Extensions
Subjects:	Text
Contents:	Kernel

Action:

Gets a text entity's string.

Filename:

kern/kern_scm/text_scm.cxx

Syntax:

(text:string text-entity)

Arg Types:

text-entity

text

Returns:

string

Description:

This extension returns the text string in a text-entity, which is enclosed in quotes.

Example:

; text:string

; Create a text entity.

(define words (text (position 0 0 0) "Hello World."

"times-medium-r-normal" 30))

;; words

; Get the text entity string.

(text:string words)

;; "Hello World."

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