Convert RTF to TXT

Question

_{Friday, June 27, 2008 4:02 PM}

What is the quickest way to convert RTF to TXT, without using RichtextBox?

All replies (3)

_{Friday, June 27, 2008 6:20 PM ✅Answered}

Rtf is structured as line by line text file with the beginning of each line devoted to various formatting characters. Id you open any rtf file you can easily see when the last formatting delimiter ends. You can read any rtf file with this command:

string [] lines = Dile.ReadAllLines (pathToYourRtfFile );
// then:

foreach ( string line in lines )
{
    int index = line.LatIndexOf ( @"\par" );
    if ( index != -1)
    {
        string outLine = line.Substring (0, index);
        int index2 = outLine.LastndexOf ( @"\ );
        if ( index2 != -1 )
        {
            outLine = outLine.Substring (index2, outLine.Length - index2 );
            // this is no tthe end of your trouble. There will be a format formattinc wording left. You will have to study it yourselves.
        }
    }
}

Not tested.

AlexB

_{Monday, June 30, 2008 10:00 AM ✅Answered}

 I quite agree with what Sheng Jiang said.

 Still, you can read the following article for some example, but might not be as the "quickest way".

 Converting RTF to TXT format
 http://www.codeproject.com/KB/files/rtftotxtconvertor.aspx

 A class library for RTF processing in C#
 http://www.codeproject.com/KB/string/nrtftree.aspx.

Hope this example can inspire you some idea.
Wishes.

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_{Friday, June 27, 2008 5:52 PM}

What you are asking is a world record in a minor problem. I am not sure Guinness is interested in this.
Anyway, the search of "rtf text converter C#" has some interesting results. You may need to do some benchmarking by yourself.

MSMVP VC++