Hi, check out the GetParagraph method in the UmbracoExtensionMethods project https://github.com/warrenbuckley/UmbracoExtensionMethods/blob/master/ExtensionMethods/Strings.cs#LC233

Jeavon,

Thanks for this I will have a look at that.

TT

Great

Hi Jeavon,

I am trying to get this working, but am stuck with the razor.

I am trying the following for the moment but am receiving a macro error, what am I missing?

 @inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext
@using HtmlAgilityPack;
@using Umbraco.Community.ExtensionMethods.Strings;
@{
var para = @Html.Raw(Model.bookText);
var res = Strings.GetParagraph(@para, 7);
<div>
@Html.Raw(res)
</div>
} 

 But if I wrap the @para in quotation marks i get a blank <p> tag.

Thanks

TT

Hi TT,

You don't need the @Html.Raw(Model.bookText), just var para = Model.bookText;

I think that's you only issue?

Jeavon

Hi Jeavon

Thank for that, but that still gives the macro error.

Regards

TT

Can you try var res = Model.bookText.GetParagraph(7);

Also, how did you include the extension methods, compiled to dll or in app_code?

Hi Jeavon

I have and that still throws the error.

I used a complied DLL

Regards

TT

Ok, we need to know what this error is, this should help

    try
    {
// your code
}     catch (Exception e) {
        <div style="color:red">@e.Message</div>
}

Oh wait, I just noticed a problem with your brackets before, could you try:

 @inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext
@using Umbraco.Community.ExtensionMethods.Strings;
@{
var res = Model.bookText.GetParagraph(7);
} 
<div>
@Html.Raw(res)
</div>

Okay just tried that and got a macro error

@{
var res = Strings.GetParagraph(Model.bookText.ToString(), 7);
}
<div class="row">
@Html.Raw(res)
</div>

Does not give an error, am about to try your error capture

Error I am seeing is:

'System.Web.HtmlString' does not contain a definition for 'GetParagraph'

With the code:

@{try
    {
var res = Model.bookText.GetParagraph(7);
<div>
@Html.Raw(res)
</div>
}     catch (Exception e) {
        <div style="color:red">@e.Message</div>
}
}

Ok, how about,

var res = Model.bookText.ToString().GetParagraph(7);

Sorry am still getting the error:

'string' does not contain a definition for 'GetParagraph'

May have it working, but am doing some more checking

Okay got this working, but it only seems to work with the try statement

@{try 
    {
var res = Strings.GetParagraph(Model.bookText.ToString(), 31);
<div>
@Html.Raw(res)
</div>
}     catch (Exception e) {
        <div style="color:red">@e.Message</div>
}
}

Hurrah! How about like this:

@{
var res = Strings.GetParagraph(Model.bookText.ToString(), 31);
}
<div>
@Html.Raw(res)
</div>

Hi Jeavon

No it doesn't like that one - well it does but i just get a blank <p> tag and not the Text the other shows (which is what I want/expect).

Thanks for all of your help with this

Regards

TT 

That's odd, I'll have a proper check tomorrow to see what's going on when I have something more useful than a iPad to hand :-)

Okay thanks.

Once again thanks for all your help

TT

That works!

Thanks very much Jeavon.

Regards

TT

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