$text

Purpose

Fetch the 'cleaned up' text covered by the node. Leading and trailing spaces are removed and separators are converted to single space.

Syntax

returnedString = variableType("$text"[, number])

returnedString - type: str
variableType - type: N or X
number - type: int

Returns

Remarks

Uses the original text buffer, rather than the subtree under the node, in order to gather text.

Example

@RULES

@@RULES

See Also

$treetext, $raw, $treeraw, , $xmltext, phraseraw, phrasetext, Special Variables