Preserving Text Formatting in Exported Files

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Hi everyone. I'm trying to export a database from FileMaker with 8402 entries into a text file of some sort (csv, tab, mer, doesn't really matter) that can then be parsed by a php file and put into MySQL. I know how to do the second part already, but I'm having lots of trouble getting the data out of FileMaker.

The problem is that in one specific text field in every entry, there is a chunk of bolded text. So, whenever I export the database this formatting in every entry is lost and the whole field becomes normal text. I've tried every export format besides FileMaker, and nothing preserves it (not that they should though, since they are all basic text formats).

I was wondering if I could create a script that inserts something like and in every entry before and after the bolded text to show where it was bolded. If there is some other better way to do this, please let me know about that as well. Any help is appreciated.

Thank you.

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Try adding a calculation field = GetAsCSS (yourfield). You can add further manipulations to massage the result into an acceptable format, but AFAIK this must be the first step to indentify the bold part/s.