Re: [libredwg] Dabbling in some coding.

[Dave Coventry]

Do you know why it's only reading as 1, then?

Where can I find the mechanism for reading the contents of an MTEXT string?

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 12:21 PM Reini Urban <reini.urban@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dave Coventry <dgcoventry@gmail.com> schrieb am Fr., 18. Juni 2021, 10:10:
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>> Hi Reini,
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>> Still trying to read MTEXT.
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>> If I get the length of the text entity:
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>> Dwg_Entity_MTEXT *text = obj->tio.entity->tio.MTEXT;
>> size_t len=strlen(text->text);
>> fprintf(stderr, "mtext length is:%d\n",len);
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>> it gives me a length of 1.
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>> if the MTEXT entity is '\A1;1700', then the length should be 8.
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> Yes, the string would be  "\\A1;1700", so length 8
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>> Or is the backslash still messing with the results?
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