# Method GTK2.TextBuffer()->get_slice()

Method get_slice

  ``string` get_slice(`GTK2.TextIter` `start`, `GTK2.TextIter` `end`, `int` `include_hidden_chars`)`

Description

  Returns the text in the range [start,end). Excludes undisplayed text (text marked with tags that set the invisibility attribute) if include_hidden_chars is false. The returned string includes a 0xFFFC character whenever the buffer contains embedded images, so byte and character indexes into the returned string do correspond to byte and character indexes into the buffer. Contrast with get_text(). Note that 0xFFFC can occur in normal text as well, so it is not a reliable indicator that a pixbuf or widget is in the buffer.