Text without formatting

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#1

If I try to place an error message captured in a try statement into a FileMaker field, the formatting from the message (black 12 point Chicago, I think) overrides the formatting specified within my FileMaker Layout.
Any ideas how to avoid this.

#2

On the AppleScript Users list in March, Jeff Baumann came up with this method for stripping AppleScript formatting from captured error messages

try
	-- Do something daft
on error errmsg
	set errmsg to (errmsg as Unicode text) as text
end try

NG

#3

If I understand correctly, you’re asking how to strip the formatting from a formatted text string? I think there is an OSAX that will does this, but I haven’t been able to find it.
However,

try
set char_list to every item of formatted_text
set unformatted_text to (char_list as string)

might work.