📘 TextBuilder & File Generation in Business Central (AL)

Table of Contents

1. TextBuilder Overview
2. Common Methods
3. Generating Files
   • CSV
   • JSON
   • XML
   • Email body

TextBuilder Overview

TextBuilder is a high-performance, mutable string buffer—ideal for heavy string manipulation without the overhead of repeated allocations - Reference type, unlike Text, making it efficient in loops and concatenations. - 1-based indexing, optimized for sequential Append, Insert, Remove, and Replace operations

Common Methods

• Append, AppendLine
• Insert(pos, text)
• Replace(old,new[,start,len])
• Remove(pos,len)
• Length(), MaxCapacity()
• ToText([start,len])