as.character.am_text: Convert text object to character string

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Convert text object to character string

Description

Extracts the full text content from an Automerge text object as a standard character string.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'am_text'
as.character(x, ...)

Arguments

x	An Automerge text object
...	Additional arguments (unused)

Value

Character string with the full text content

Examples

doc <- am_create()

am_put(doc, AM_ROOT, "notes", am_text("Hello World"))
text_obj <- am_get(doc, AM_ROOT, "notes")

text_string <- as.character(text_obj)
text_string  # "Hello World"

identical(as.character(text_obj), am_text_content(text_obj))  # TRUE

am_close(doc)

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