Gets the formatted text in the cell on this sheet using the IFormatter object for the cell.

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Function GetText( _ ByVal row As Integer, _ ByVal column As Integer _ ) As String

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`Dim instance As SheetView Dim row As Integer Dim column As Integer Dim value As String value = instance.GetText(row, column)`

C#
public string GetText( int row, int column )

String containing the text in the cell, formatted using the cell's formatter

Exceptions

Exception	Description
ArgumentOutOfRangeException	Specified row index is out of range; must be between 0 and the total number of rows
ArgumentOutOfRangeException	Specified column index is out of range; must be between 0 and the total number of columns

This example illustrates the use of this member by returning the text (formatted data) for the specified cell.

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`fpSpread1.ActiveSheet.SetText(0, 0, "FarPoint"); label1.Text = "The text in the first cell is - " + fpSpread1.ActiveSheet.GetText(0, 0);`

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`FpSpread1.ActiveSheet.SetText(0, 0, "FarPoint") Label1.Text = "The text in the first cell is - " & FpSpread1.ActiveSheet.GetText(0, 0)`

Besides using this method, you can get or set the value in a cell using various properties of the sheet (SheetView object) or properties of the cell (Cell object). For more information, see Handling Data Using Sheet Methods and Handling Data Using Cell Properties.

Remember that the data may be displayed differently in a cell depending on the cell type. For more information, see Understanding Cell Type Effects on Displaying Data.