Using wild cards in Action search strings

[AlanLitchfield]

For an Action that utilises the Redact function to store found search values, how can I use wild card characters in the search string. For example * for any characater and ? for a specific character?

Presently the Action has three steps:

1: Search & Remove Text which offers a dialog for search strings

2: Execute Javascript which takes the found redactions and changes them to highlight annotations (I then do various things with different javascripts, like replacing text, commenting, striking out, etc.)

3: Save the file

The search string with cards will be applied in the first step.

[JR Boulay · Accepted solution]

The "Find text and redact" tool can use GREP queries.

You should read this topic: https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/sanitize-document-using-custom-patterns/m-p/13671...

[AlanLitchfield]

Perfect. I wondered if a version of regex would work but could find no reference to it in Adobe's pdf javascript manual.

Now I just need to work out how to build an interface for it to enable input while working on a document.