text

text, contextual keyword

The word text is a contextual keyword of the Envision language. It refers to the primitive data type text that contains a list of Unicode characters. Text values are capped to 256 characters in Envision.

The primary usage of the keyword text is within read statements, but it can also be used within an expect statement.

Example:

tt = "Hello World!"
expect tt : text
show table "" export: "/sample/onetext.ion" with tt

followed by

read "/sample/onetext.ion" as T with
  tt : text

show scalar "" a1b2 with same(T.tt)

text(a: ‘a) 🡒 text, pure function

Returns the canonical text representation for all the primitive data types.

Example:

show summary "" a1a4 with
  text(true)
  text(123.45)
  text(date(2020, 8, 27))
  text("Hello World!") // identity

The text() function is implicitely used when interpolating text value, i.e. \{myValue}.