Masking lines with transparent text box

[Luis226643486m42]

Hello, I'm building this venn diagram with the text interrupting the path. I'd like for the text to essentially mask out the path where the text coincides without splitting the path or "coloring" over the line with text background. Is there any way to do this?

Where the text would go: 

 The result I want: *done manually in Paint 3D

[Kurt Gold]

Here you can find one possible way to do it (including sample Illustrator files):

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/hiding-sections-of-layers-around-text-and-out...

[SJRiegel · Accepted solution]

Here is one way:

Add a heavy black stroke to your text, with an opacity setting of 0%

Group text with the object you want to hide, then with the group selected, check the Knockout Group box in the transparency panel.

[Luis226643486m42]

For some reason when grouping the text and then going to transparency I did not get the knockout group feature. It worked anyways though.

[Mike_Gondek]

If you are ok with using white rather than knocking out you can make live text that adds a live automatic white recatngle around the type by using effect  >> convert to shape >> rectangle on a white fill underneath the black fill on the text. Remove the balck fil at the character level and apple at the type level in appearance.

It does this though

The pathfinder effects are tempting to resolve this, but I have never gotten them to work reliably.

[SJRiegel]

Another option: combine MikeGondek's solution with mine. Make the second fill (with the rectange effect) black with 0% opacity, then Group text with underlying shape as in my first example, and check the Knockout Group box.

 

[Luis226643486m42]

Awesome! I got it to work. Thank you so much! I went nuts online looking for a solution but whenever I searched masking, spacing, splitting, cutting etc. I would get other results and not what I needed. I really appreciate all your help!