Finding text with variables

I was thinking, there is what we might call the "shotgun" approach. You could go through first and replace every variable with some unique text. Like, replace each variable with "ThisIsSomeCompleteBullJiveTextHere", then you could do the search based on text only, searching for "Hello world my friend ThisIsSomeCompleteBullJiveTextHere".  After you are done, go through and restore the variables. This is a wild, overblown approach, but it should work if the search/replace is reliable. It might also be easier than sifting through text items, paragraph by paragraph.

Russ

One possibility is to get all of paragraph's text into a string and then test the contents of the string. This is how I do it with ExtendScript:

function getText (textObj, doc) {
    // Gets the text from the text object.
    var text = "";
    // Get a list of the strings in the text object or text range.
    if (textObj.constructor.name !== "TextRange") {
        var textItems = textObj.GetText(Constants.FTI_String);
    } else {
        var textItems = doc.GetTextForRange(textObj, Constants.FTI_String);
    }
    // Concatenate the strings.
    for (var i = 0; i < textItems.len; i += 1) {
        text += (textItems.sdata);
    }
    return text; // Return the text
}

You would have to adapt this with FDK code but conceptually it should work. If there is a match, things might be a bit tricky to actually get the required text range, but let me think about it and see if I can come up with a solution.