Aspose.Words.Document.ToTxt() returning an extra \r\n at end of string

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Hi there,

I’m trying to convert some RTF to plain text and I noticed that the method Aspose.Words.Document.ToTxt() is returning an extra CR+LF at the end of the string.

The rtf I am converting is this:

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}
{*\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1515;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 This is \ul\b test \ulnone\b0 text.}

and the plain text representation I am expecting is this:

This is test text.

This is the code I’m using to convert:

string rtfText = @"{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}
{*\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1515;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 This is \ul\b test \ulnone\b0 text.}";

using(MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(rtfText.GetBytes()))
{
    Document document = new Document(stream);
    retVal = document.ToTxt();
 }

…

At this point in the code the value of retVal is:

This is test text.\r\n

Let me know if I’m missing something or there’s another better method I should be using for the conversion.

Thanks!

2

Hi
Thanks for your request. Aspose.Words returns a correct value. MS Word document should contain at least one paragraph. So the line break you see at the end of your string is a paragraph break. If you do not need this break, you can easily trim it out in your code.
Best regards,

3

Hi,

Thanks for the quick response. I agree that it would be easy for me to fix and I’ll do that. Just to be clear, I can assume there will always be a \r\n at the end of every piece of RTF I convert in this way?

While I understand it seems trivial, its clearly not the case that every paragraph in an RTF file ends with a line break. If you open WordPad, type a line of text and don’t hit Enter, you have a paragraph that does not end with a line break.

Thanks Again

4

Hi
Thanks for your request. Anyways, even if there is only one paragraph, it is still there and paragraph break is also there. Please see the attached screenshot.
Best regards,

5

Sorry, I didn’t mean to suggest the paragraph didn’t end there. I meant that the end of a paragraph does not necessarily mean a newline.

Anyway, if I can rely on that newline always being there I’ll just always strip a newline off the end of converted text. Any non-empty converted RTF will have the paragraph break (plain text newline) at the end right?

Thanks

6

Hi
Thanks for your inquiry. Even empty document will have one paragraph break.
You can also implement your own to txt converter as described here:
https://reference.aspose.com/words/net/aspose.words/documentvisitor/
Best regards,