ExtendScript

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July 15, 2022
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howdy,

what version of javascript is used by extendscript?

wonder if variable resolution in string literals is support, e.g.

var _name = 'Dude'; alert(`howdy ${_name}`);

cheers,

PJ

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Correct answer Peter Kahrel

Well, Patrick didn't say he was interested in localisation, all he wanted was to use a variable in s string. Seems to me that all he needs is

var _name = 'Dude'; alert('howdy ' + _name);

M

Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Hi @Patrick Jaeger,

As has already been pointed out by other participants of the discussion, Extendscript is based on a very old standard so such mordern features are not available to it. However for your particular example we have a method that works almost like it. The method is localize, see the documentation at the following link

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#global.html#d1e3846__d1e4325

So your code sample could be rewritten as following

var _name = 'Dude'; alert(localize("howdy %1", _name));

-Manan

Peter Kahrel

Correct answer

Community Expert

Well, Patrick didn't say he was interested in localisation, all he wanted was to use a variable in s string. Seems to me that all he needs is

var _name = 'Dude'; alert('howdy ' + _name);

M

Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Hi @Peter Kahrel,

Frankly speaking I have never used the localise method for localisation nor do I have any idea how that would work(would be great if you could share some examples for it). The reason I suggested this method was due to its capability to mimic the template literals of modern JS, specifically it's string interpolation functionality. String interpolation of all things make long strings intersperesed with results of expressions a lot easier to read. As far as I understood that is what the OP is after, even though the example used was a simplistic one and hence my suggestion. See the following

String interpolation

-Manan