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Saving RichTextBox as Plain Text

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Question:
How can I output straight ASCII text from the Rich Text Box control, and NOT Rich text?

Answer:
The SaveFile method of the RichTextBox control can be called with an additional argument: filetype. If you call SaveFile as follows, it will save your text without any RTF tags:

RichTextBox.SaveFile “testfile.txt”, 1

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