Legal Description/RTF Format

[dlerickson]

I'm looking to add Legal Description data to one of the feeds we've built for integrating with our LOS, using the CommitmentLegal#Description field in pfm.Property. We need the data only and not the RTF formatting. Is there a "clean" source of this data elsewhere or are we going to have to parse out the RTF formatting bits from this field?

[BobRichards]

We do not have a built-in way of retrieving the undecorated text from an RTF box.

[tim.pageler]

Understanding you don't have anything built in, do you have any suggestions on how we would go about extracting just the text from one of these fields?

[Phil Barton]

You could use WinForms rich text box to set the RTF text and extract the raw text like so, in C# (the 'rtf' variable is your raw rich text):

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   using(RichTextBox rtb = new RichTextBox())
   {
       rtb.Rtf = rtf;
       return rtb.Text;
   }