Find and select layer by an specific word in its name script

Question

Hi everyone! I searched here in the community but couldn't find what I need or something I could change to what I need.

I would be grateful if anyone can help

I have some files, with several layers, but I need to select a specific layer in each of these files.

The names vary, but the ones I need have the final _final in the names.

Ex: Layer 123456_final, another layer, in another file, 5678_final, another abcd_final and so on. the names vary, but the _final is always the same within the files.

Is there any script that recognizes the _final and selects that layer regardless of the name that comes before it?

Thanks!

jazz-y · Accepted Answer

more letters, but faster:

#target photoshop
s2t = stringIDToTypeID;
(ref = new ActionReference()).putProperty(s2t('property'), p = s2t('numberOfLayers'));
ref.putEnumerated(s2t('document'), s2t('ordinal'), s2t('targetEnum'));
var len = executeActionGet(ref).getInteger(p);
for (var i = 1; i <= len; i++) {
    (ref = new ActionReference()).putProperty(s2t('property'), p = s2t('name'));
    ref.putIndex(s2t('layer'), i);
    if ((/_final$/i).test(executeActionGet(ref).getString(p))) {
        (ref = new ActionReference()).putProperty(s2t('property'), p = s2t('layerID'));
        ref.putIndex(s2t('layer'), i);
        (r = new ActionReference()).putIdentifier(s2t("layer"), executeActionGet(ref).getInteger(p));
        (d = new ActionDescriptor()).putReference(s2t("target"), r);
        executeAction(s2t("select"), d, DialogModes.NO);
        break;
    }
}

or less letters, but slower:

lrs=[].slice.call((ad=activeDocument).layers)
while (l=lrs.shift()) if(/_final$/i.test(l.name)) {ad.activeLayer=l; break;}

Stephen Marsh · Answer

@rrprec – The first question that comes to mind is: what will you do with the selected layer?

The next question is – will there only be 1 layer ending in "_final" – or if there were multiple layers ending in "_final" do you need all of them to be selected?

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