Hmm, that one is still coming up with 'atf' as 'no such element' #target illustrator function test(){ // regex_changeContentsOfWordOrString_RemainFormatting.jsx // regards pixxxel schubser var doc = app.activeDocument; var s = new RegExp("\\d{3}","gi"); var myStyle = doc.characterStyles.getByName("MyStyle"); for ( i = app.activeDocument.textFrames.length; i >=0; i-- ) {     var atf = activeDocument.textFrames;     var result, aCon;     while ( result = s.exec(atf.contents)) {         try {             aCon = atf.characters[result.index];             aCon.length = result[0].length;             myStyle.applyTo(aCon);             } catch (e) {};         } } }; test(); Any help is so appreciated! I'm thinking that maybe i'm going about this loop in the wrong way all together.. ... View more

Thanks for looking at this, Larry! When I tried the loop backward, Extendscript didn't like the '=>' and said the '>' does not have a value. i tried: for ( i = app.activeDocument.textFrames.length; i >0; i-- ) and then the script ran, but then it's telling me that the 'atf' variable has no value. If I set 'i' explicitly to the number of text frames in the doc, (For example 7 total textframes in the document) I can get the loop (i--) to apply the style to TF 6 and TF 5, and then with (i++) I can get it to apply the style to TF 0, TF 1, and TF 6, but can't figure out why it's not just going through all of them. If that makes any sense. ... View more

So, I've been struggling with this script for a long time. The code above works great to target a single text frame. I'm trying to get it to loop through all of the textframes in a document. The code below works for more than one textframe, so the loop is sort of working, but it only works for a few and many identical textframes are not getting the character style change. Any ideas why this loop might not be working for all textframes? The .ai doc (CS6) i've been using is here: Dropbox - regex-test.ai Thank you! #target illustrator function test(){ // regex_changeContentsOfWordOrString_RemainFormatting.jsx // regards pixxxel schubser var doc = app.activeDocument; var s = new RegExp("\\d{3}","gi"); var myStyle = doc.characterStyles.getByName("MyStyle"); for ( i = 0; i < app.activeDocument.textFrames.length; i++ ) {     var atf = activeDocument.textFrames;     var result, aCon;     while ( result = s.exec(atf.contents)) {         try {             aCon = atf.characters[result.index];             aCon.length = result[0].length;             myStyle.applyTo(aCon);             } catch (e) {};         } } }; test(); ... View more

That was it! It now works on the first text frame in the document. It's not looping through any other textframes though. Thank you for that description--I'll get this working in Extendscript so I can troubleshoot the loop. Thank you! ... View more

Thanks, Silly-V. I so appreciate your help. I'm still not able to make it happen with that most recent version. I restarted illustrator as well. I make a quick screen recording..maybe you can spot what i'm doing wrong? illustrator regex char style - YouTube ... View more

Thank you! I'm new to regular expressions and am just getting the hang of them. I replaced that bit with the one you provided, and it works in the Regex Tester, but still isn't changing the character style in Illustrator: #target illustrator function test(){ // regex_changeContentsOfWordOrString_RemainFormatting.jsx // regards pixxxel schubser var doc = app.activeDocument; var s = new RegExp("\d{3}","gi"); var myStyle = doc.characterStyles.getByName("MyStyle"); var atf = activeDocument.textFrames[0]; while (result = s.exec(atf.contents)) {     try {         aCon = atf.characters[result.index];         aCon.length = result[0].length;         myStyle.applyTo(aCon);         } catch (e) {};     } }; test(); Doesn't work to change the character style on point text objects containing the following strings: first / 563 / third one / 334 / three 334 563 Maybe, i'm messing up with how I have them selected, or organized in layers? ... View more

I'm not sure if this tool will allow for the exact extraction fo the x,y for use in html5, but ai2html  seems to be a pretty powerful tool to get illustrator objects working in the browser ai2html ... View more

Wow! I think that might be the ticket. I'm not having luck making it work though. I think it must be that my regex is incorrect. I'm wondering if you could shed any light on what I'm doing wrong. #target illustrator function test(){ // regex_changeContentsOfWordOrString_RemainFormatting.jsx // regards pixxxel schubser var doc = app.activeDocument; var s = new RegExp("[0-9]*$","gi"); var myStyle = doc.characterStyles.getByName("MyStyle"); var atf = activeDocument.textFrames[0]; while (result = s.exec(atf.contents)) {     try {         aCon = atf.characters[result.index];         aCon.length = result[0].length;         myStyle.applyTo(aCon);         } catch (e) {};     } }; test(); assuming -I have a character Style setup named "MyStyle" -I have two point text objects:             "one / 334 / three"             "first / 563 / third" -I have the point text objects selected (or un-selected?) when I run the script it should set "334" and "563" from whatever the style was to 'MyStyle', correct? The script appears to run correctly without any errors, but does not make the character style change. If I don't have 'MyStyle' setup, i get an error reporting that. Thank you! ... View more

Mike - That's another really good thought. It could be something that happened when I updated my OS. I should try a test case on an older version of osx. Unfortunately, IMHO, Illustrator CC is not optimized for use as a vector graphics program. Even with GPU acceleration disabled, it's far too laggy with the large documents that I work on. So, i'm stuck with CS6 until Adobe fixes the performance issues. Thank you for your great ideas on potential problems, though! ... View more

I'm on MacOS 10.11.6. I do have an illustrator plugin installed called MAPublisher. Hmm, i haven't tried things without the plugin installed, but I've had it installed for a really long time, and I think that I this problem popped up mid-use of the plugin, but that is a good thought. more research needed... After saying 'yes' to update links (which were not updated), the file loads into .ai, but no asterisk is appended to the filename. ... View more

System clock is correct and timestamps on files make sense as well. ... View more

TimeMachine is running, but I get the same behavior when I turn it off. Is Illustrator checking some sort of internal timestamp to see if the file is updated, or is it just the modify date on the linked file itself? These files are all in a single folder within my home/user folder, so i think all privs should be fine. I've attached a photo of the file details. ... View more

No, It's not in a cloud drive or any CC library. As far as I can tell it's just a standard folder on a normal filesystem. ... View more