Data merge fill

Loic Aigon of Ozalto (http://www.ozalto.com/en/) wrote a script over at CreativePro that will take text that has the << or >> around them and – if the name of that word or phrase matches a field in the data merge database - will turn it into the form field. The script is here:

https://creativepro.com/topic/assign-data-merge-tag-automatically-using-a-script/

Note though - if you copy the script directly, note that the curly quotes have to change to straight quotes; and the phrase in the script

while ( n– ) {

needs to become

while ( n-- ) {

I've tested this script with text that has nine separate text frames that has the names typed out but not linked to the data merge.

After the script is run, the phrases are now linked to their data merge entries without clicking on the data merge panel once.

This appears as though you might be able to do this with a Multiple Record Layout merge, as opposed to Single Record. But one question, is the larger gap between 3 and 4 intentionally?