NotebookImport ignoring multiple style cells

Question

Bug introduced in 11 or earlier and persisting through 12.1

[...] I have filed a report to the development team, raising the issue to them. [...]

[CASE:3802659]

CellPrint[Cell["test", "Text"]] CellPrint[Cell["test2", "Text", "MyStyle"]] CellPrint[Cell["test3", "Text", "Text"]]

NotebookImport[EvaluationNotebook[], "Text"]

{"test"}

Since multiple style cells are officially supported I would consider it a bug. Or have I missed something?

Mr.Wizard · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-20 18:16:10Z

I suppose you want that to return all three cells? This does work for that:

NotebookImport[EvaluationNotebook[], "Text" | {"Text", _}]

{"test", "test2", "test3"}

One can also pull only specific combinations:

NotebookImport[EvaluationNotebook[], {"Text", "Text"}]

{"test3"}

Notably this matches none of the examples:

NotebookImport[EvaluationNotebook[], {"Text"}]

{}

It won't catch CellPrint[Cell["test3", {"Whatever", "Text"}]] but it is a good direction and at the end x__ /; ! FreeQ[{x}, "Text"] works, the problem is we need it for each mentioned style as it can happen in general. — Kuba
– Kuba, Commented Dec 20, 2016 at 18:56

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