Is there a way to detect whether the currently selected text box contains a frame separator?

Question

I want to check whether the currently selected frame contains a frame separator (~R) or a page separator (~P).But it seems like I'm not getting any results.var s = app.selection[0].texts[0].contents;
alert(s);

var what = "~R|~P"
var res = getGrepSearch(what, app.activeDocument);
alert(res);

function getGrepSearch(fp, s) {
    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = app.findChangeGrepOptions = null;
    app.findChangeGrepOptions.properties = { includeHiddenLayers: true, includeLockedLayersForFind: true, includeLockedStoriesForFind: true, includeMasterPages: true }
    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = fp;
    //return app.findGrep()
    return s.findGrep()
}

rob day · Accepted Answer

Set s to the text not the contents, try this:

//var s = app.selection[0].texts[0].contents;
//get the text frame not the contents
var s = app.selection[0].texts[0];

//returns an empty array
//var what = "~R|~P"
var what = "~R"

var res = getGrepSearch(what, s);
//the first found item
alert(res[0].contents)

function getGrepSearch(fp, s) {
    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = app.findChangeGrepOptions = null;
    app.findChangeGrepOptions.properties = { includeHiddenLayers: true, includeLockedLayersForFind: true, includeLockedStoriesForFind: true, includeMasterPages: true }
    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = fp;
    return s.findGrep()
} 
 
 

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