What influences offsets in text ranges ?

Question

Dear friends,
I know that anchors of any types add 1 to an offset and that element boundaries also add 1. But how about character formats? My experiments show, that they do not count, but in the problem discussed here, they obviously have an influence. I use the following script to check the selection or location:
 
var oDoc = app.ActiveDoc, begin, end, oTR;
oTR = oDoc.TextSelection;
begin = oTR.beg.offset;
end   = oTR.end.offset;
$.writeln (begin, " ", end);
 
and have this situation (you see 3 character formats applied):

Can somebody enlighten me?

frameexpert · Answer

I didn't follow the other thread closely, but one thing to be aware of with text items: If you loop through them from the front of the paragraph and make some changes to the paragraph inside your loop, you may change the offsets of items not yet processed. If I am making changes to the paragraph, I will loop through the text items backwards so that this isn't a problem.textItems = pgf.GetText (...);count = textItems.length;for (i = count - 1; i >= 0; i -= 1) {    //...}

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