.What was your original motivation to collect all the text from several drawings?
Was it so you could identify a specific piece of text and locate which dgn file has this text?
If so we have now in V8i ss3 able to use Windows explorer to search for text and text patterns and get a listing of all the results and it tells you which files it found it in ...and it works really well and very fast!
here is a little tutorial I wrote for myself on it.
It is not a programing solution sorry about that to all the forum users here but it is a solution that can be used by any other would be user trying to get a quick answer ( FYI this used to be very easy in old days with Edg)
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