hyphenationExceptions in Dictionary

This line will fail with an error:

try{
doc.hyphenationExceptions.itemByName( "Arabic" ).name;
}catch(e)
{
	$.writeln( "ERROR: " + e.number +", "+ e.message );
}

// RESULT: "ERROR: 1, name"

Because Arabic is listed as the last entry in the collection of hyphenation exceptions.

At least with my installed German InDesign 2022 version 17.3.0 on Windows 10.

The bug is very old. Can see it already with InDesign CS6 version 8.1.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

You might have to write your own function

var hbn = getHEByName("English: UK")
$.writeln(hbn.name)


/**
* Get Hyphenation Exception by Name 
* @ param name to get 
* @ return hyphenation exception 
* 
*/
function getHEByName(n){
    var h = app.documents[0].hyphenationExceptions;
    var he
    for (var i = 0; i < h.length; i++){
        if (h[i].name == n) {
            he = h[i]
        } 
    };   
    return he
}

Hi @dillibabum29191024 , Looks like the entire collection is off by 1:

$.writeln("Looking for Bulgarian — " + app.documents[0].hyphenationExceptions.itemByName("Bulgarian").name + "\r\r")
var h = app.documents[0].hyphenationExceptions


for (var i = 0; i < h.length; i++){
    $.writeln(h[i].name)
};   


/* Return

Looking for Bulgarian — Catalan

bn_IN
gu_IN
hi_IN
kn_IN
ml_IN
mr_IN
or_IN
pa_IN
ta_IN
te_IN
Bulgarian
Catalan
Czech
Danish
German: Swiss
de_CH_2006
German: Reformed
de_DE_2006
Greek
English: Canadian
English: UK
English: USA
English: USA Medical
Spanish: Castilian
Estonian
Finnish
French: Canadian
French
Croatian
Hungarian
Italian
Lithuanian
Latvian
Norwegian: Bokmal
Dutch
nl_NL_2005
Norwegian: Nynorsk
Polish
Portuguese: Brazilian
Portuguese: Orthographic Agreement
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Slovak
Slovenian
Swedish
Turkish
Ukrainian */