Getting the string of a numbered list item

Hi all,

Some time ago I posted a question about lists in Writer
documents, and I
am still having problems. I thought I'd simplify the
question and
re-post now.

How can I get the actual text string of a numbered list
item? Calling
getString() on a TextCursor or Paragraph returns the
numbering character
as well, so e.g.

foobar        <--- Paragraph.getString() returns
"foobar"
- foobar      <--- Paragraph.getString() returns
"foobar"
1. foobar     <--- Paragraph.getString() returns
"1.foobar"

Because the numbering character and delimiter can be more or
less
anything (if user-defined), it's impossible to universally
strip them
off (especially as the delimiter can be omitted).

Is there any way of getting just the string? Any help will
be greatly
appreciated, as I really need this and I've been going in
circles with
the issue.

Cheers,

Zbigniew Banach

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Hi,

> Hi all,
> 
> Some time ago I posted a question about lists in Writer
documents, and I
> am still having problems. I thought I'd simplify the
question and
> re-post now.
> 
> How can I get the actual text string of a numbered list
item? Calling
> getString() on a TextCursor or Paragraph returns the
numbering character
> as well, so e.g.
> 
> foobar        <--- Paragraph.getString() returns
"foobar"
> - foobar      <--- Paragraph.getString() returns
"foobar"
> 1. foobar     <--- Paragraph.getString() returns
"1.foobar"
> 
> Because the numbering character and delimiter can be
more or less
> anything (if user-defined), it's impossible to
universally strip them
> off (especially as the delimiter can be omitted).
> 
> Is there any way of getting just the string? Any help
will be greatly
> appreciated, as I really need this and I've been going
in circles with
> the issue.
> 

I think you've to enumerate your Paragraph:

'-------------------------
sub testParaNumberRules
   doc = thiscomponent
   texto = doc.getText()
   enum = texto.createEnumeration()
   while enum.hasMoreElements()
      txt = enum.nextElement()
      nrules = txt.NumberingRules
      if not IsEmpty(nrules) Then
         enum2 = txt.createEnumeration()
         paraString = ""
         ' get all TextPortions
         while enum2.hasMoreElements()
            portion = enum2.nextElement()
            paraString = paraString &
portion.getString()
         wend
         print paraString
      end if
   wend
end sub
'-------------------------

Here's a issue about:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=68511


HTH

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