Gtk.Label.get_text

### Method

# Gtk Labelget_text

#### Declaration [src]

    const char*
    gtk_label_get_text (
      GtkLabel* self
    )

#### Description [src]

Fetches the text from a label.

The returned text is as it appears on screen. This does not include any embedded underlines indicating mnemonics or Pango markup. (See `gtk_label_get_label()`).

#### Return value

Type: `const char*`

The text in the label widget. This is the internal string used by the label, and must not be modified.

The returned data is owned by the instance.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.