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DuanesSearchForKnowledge
DuanesSearchForKnowledge
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April 9, 2013
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deleting text from text frame

  • April 9, 2013
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my question is does anyone now the best way or anyway to remove text from a text frame?

say if you want to remove anything in () in a text frame or any * symbols.

52(one on both sides) //you have this in a text frame

52 // and you want to change it to this by deleting (.)

or

40* //you have this in a text frame

40 // and you want to change it to this by deleting the *

any help would be great.

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Correct answer CarlosCanto

Eureka! Thanks Carlos! I'm going to have to wrap my head around that.

now to get rid of () and everything in them I taught this would work;

myText2 = myText2.replace(/\(\.\)/, '')

I thought a period stood for anything or all. not sure about that now.

I was trying to say (all), replace with nothing.


this should do

myText2 = myText2.replace(/\((.+)\)/, '');

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pixxxelschubser
Community Expert
pixxxelschubserCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 9, 2013

Try this:

var aDoc = app.activeDocument;
var aTFrame = aDoc.textFrames;
var aString = "50*";
for (i=aTFrame.length-1; i>0; i--) {
    contentString = aTFrame.contents;
    if (contentString.indexOf(aString) != -1) { //if 50* present in the text frame
        //aTFrame.selected = true;
        //alert (contentString);
        aTFrame.contents = contentString.replace (/50\*/g, '50');
        }
    }
CarlosCanto
Community Expert
CarlosCantoCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 9, 2013

use the replace method, for example to remove all asterisks

var string = '*52* 53 54 *55';
var newstring = string.replace (/\*/g, '');
alert(newstring);

homework topics

- string.replace(what, with)

- javascript regular expressions (/\*/g) (or RegExp Object)

DuanesSearchForKnowledge
DuanesSearchForKnowledgeAuthor
Inspiring
April 9, 2013

Thanks Carlos and P.S. I have been able to change the string but for some reason I cant get it to actually change the textframe in the document.

Below is what I had before. TF 0 is 50* and when you read the alerts the first says 50* and the last one says 50, but the text frame in the file does not change. Do you know how to get it to change the text frame?

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;

var myText = myDoc.textFrames[0].contents;

alert(myText);

myText = myText.replace("*", '')

alert(myText);

CarlosCanto
Community Expert
CarlosCantoCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 9, 2013

now you need to put that string back to the text frame

myDoc.textFrames[0].contents = myText;
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