JavaScript search or find or get a number or number string on a page.

[Connor26190737hzvh]

I am looking to search a pdf using javascript to find a certain number, the index of a number or anything that would get a number string on a PDF. The closest thing I have found is "this.getPageNthWord" but that cannot get numbers. Any help would be appreciated. 

[kglad]

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[Bernd Alheit]

What happens when you use this function?

[Test Screen Name]

 Numbers in a page, words on a page, symbols on a page. These are all characters of the same kind. getPageNthWord gets groups of characters, combined by guesswork into "words". What difficulty do you face reading strings of digits as numbers?

[Connor26190737hzvh]

I have a string of numbers on the page that was imported from using prepare forms "topComponent" feature. I would like to get the number string from off the page and use it in my JavaScript but when I use "this.getPageNthWord" it just skips over the number string completely. 

[try67]

What do you want to do with these numbers, once they are found?

[Connor26190737hzvh]

add them to a populated email but I know how to do that already 

[try67 · Accepted solution]

OK. Well, this code will print out all the words in the file with a digit in them (so even "1a" or "abc3xyz"):

for (var p=0; p<this.numPages; p++) {
	var numWords = this.getPageNumWords(p);
	for (var i=0; i<numWords; i++) {
		var word = this.getPageNthWord(p,i,true);
		if (/\d/.test(word)) console.println(word);
	}
}

[Connor26190737hzvh]

It worked great! Thanks so much!