Find and replace with wildcards in framemaker.

I am pressed for time this morning, but I will give you a little code to get you started. Here is the basic way to do it with a regular expression:

var text, regex;
text = "How to find 5 digits value with comma (10,000) and 15,000.";
regex = /(\d+),(\d+)/g;
if (regex.test (text) === true) {
    text = text.replace (regex, "$1.$2");
    alert (text);
}

I assume you are doing this in the context of FrameMaker text so things are more complicated. Do you know how to use the Find method on the Doc object? If so, there is a way to do finds using regular expressions like you can in the FrameMaker interface. Here is how you can set up your Find parameters using regular expressions:

function getRegexFindParams (regex) {
    
    findParams = new PropVals ();
    propVal = new PropVal ();
    propVal.propIdent.num = Constants.FS_FindText;
    propVal.propVal.valType = Constants.FT_String;
    propVal.propVal.sval = regex;
    findParams[0] = propVal;
    
    propVal = new PropVal ();
    propVal.propIdent.num = Constants.FS_FindCustomizationFlags;
    propVal.propVal.valType = Constants.FT_Integer;
    propVal.propVal.ival = 16; // Regular expressions
    findParams[1] = propVal;
    
    propVal = new PropVal ();
    propVal.propIdent.num = Constants.FS_FindWrap;
    propVal.propVal.valType = Constants.FT_Integer;
    propVal.propVal.ival = 0;
    findParams[2] = propVal;
    
    propVal = new PropVal ();
    propVal.propIdent.num = Constants.FS_RegexFlavour;
    propVal.propVal.valType = Constants.FT_Integer;
    propVal.propVal.ival = 1; // Perl compatible
    findParams[3] = propVal;
    return findParams;
}