# Flat text from msg.payload

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flat-text-from-msg-payload/24759>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [13 April 2020 13:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flat-text-from-msg-payload/24759 "2020-04-13T13:59:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![RogierQ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/rogierq/32/3211_2.png) [@RogierQ](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/RogierQ)\
**Post date:** [13 April 2020 13:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flat-text-from-msg-payload/24759/1 "2020-04-13T13:59:32Z")

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I would like to log different data that is send and received  
This sometimes contains arrays.

Is it possible to convert everything to flat text?  
So that the whole lines comes like text in my log file.  
Now i get [object Object] for example  
The problem is that the datastring differs every time

thanks

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**Author:** ![Steve-Mcl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/steve-mcl/32/4826_2.png) [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)\
**Post date:** [13 April 2020 14:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flat-text-from-msg-payload/24759/2 "2020-04-13T14:26:59Z")

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Maybe this could be of use ?[https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-flogger](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-flogger)

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**Author:** ![RogierQ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/rogierq/32/3211_2.png) [@RogierQ](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/RogierQ)\
**Post date:** [13 April 2020 14:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flat-text-from-msg-payload/24759/3 "2020-04-13T14:38:27Z")

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Cool that does it exactly!  
Only dont understand the loglevel, but i guess that is just a marker line in the log?

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**Author:** ![JGKK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/jgkk/32/18515_2.png) [@JGKK](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JGKK)\
**Post date:** [13 April 2020 14:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flat-text-from-msg-payload/24759/4 "2020-04-13T14:59:35Z")

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Things i didn’t know i wanted 😍

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [12 June 2020 14:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flat-text-from-msg-payload/24759/5 "2020-06-12T14:59:42Z")

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Closed on 12 June 2020 14:59 UTC

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