IsPlainText ( text )

Returns True (1) if text has no text formatting applied to it; otherwise returns False (0).

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Michael Horak - Show more from this author
*COMMENT Visual Realisation

Sample input:

IsPlainText ( TextStyleAdd ( "abc" ; bold ) )

IsPlainText ( TextFormatRemove ( TextStyleAdd ( "abc" ; bold ) ) )

Sample output:

0

1

Function definition: (Copy & paste into FileMaker's Edit Custom Function window)

/*
IsPlainText function

Author
*COMMENT Visual Realisation

Format
IsPlainText ( text )

Parameters
text - any text expression or text field

Data type returned
number

Description
Returns True(1) if text has no formatting applied to it, in whole or in part; otherwise returns False(0).

November 14, 2013
*/

not PatternCount ( GetAsSVG ( "plain text" & text ) ; "<Style#1>" )

Returns True (1) if text has no text formatting applied to it, in whole or in part; otherwise returns False (0).
Text formatting includes styles (Bold, Italic, Underline, etc.), fonts, font sizes, and font colors.

This function is NOT recursive.

Comments

		Daniele Raybaudi, ACI Nov 23, 2013
Hi Michael if we need to verify even the alignment, then I do not see other way than this: TextToCSS ( StartDate ) = TextToCSS ( TextFormatRemove ( StartDate ) ) where TextToCSS is a custom function.

		Daniele Raybaudi, ACI Nov 23, 2013
Edit: TextToCSS ( text ) = TextToCSS ( TextFormatRemove ( text ) )

		comment, VR Nov 23, 2013
I didn't want to go that far, because FMI didn't either - but if anyone needs it, Daniele's TextToCSS function is at: http://www.briandunning.com/cf/1586

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IsPlainText ( text )

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