Widget API: EditBox:GetText

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Returns the text that is currently entered in the EditBox.

local text = editBox:GetText()

Parameters

Arguments

None

Returns

• text (string) - the current text in the EditBox as a string

Details

Note that the special characters "|" and "\" are escaped in the returned string. That way GetText() returns "||" instead of "|" and "\\" instead of "\".

Comments

If you want to read in numbers you should use the GetNumber() function instead.