Controls how text strings entered with TEXT (using scripts or AutoLISP) or with -TEXT are evaluated.
| Type: | Integer | 
| Saved in: | Not-saved | 
| Initial value: | 0 | 
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			  0  | 
 
			  All responses to prompts for text strings and attribute values are taken literally.  | 
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			  1  | 
 
			  All text starting from an opening parenthesis [(] or an exclamation mark [!] is evaluated as an AutoLISP expression, as for nontextual input.  | 
The TEXT command takes all input literally regardless of the setting of TEXTEVAL unless it is executed completely with a script or AutoLISP expression. The -TEXT command honors the setting of TEXTEVAL.