How to search text in the table?

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January 18, 2013
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Suppose, I've selected some fragment in my document, and I need to find and replace some text in it. Everything is ok, untill I select a part of a table with this text. Does anyone has idea, how to search through the selected cells in the table? Or, just how to iterate them?

Thanks!

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frameexpert

Community Expert

Here is how to interate through table cells in the selected table:

var doc = app.ActiveDoc;
var tbl = doc.SelectedTbl;
var cell = tbl.FirstRowInTbl.FirstCellInRow;
while (cell.ObjectValid() === 1) {
    // Do something with the cell object here.
    cell = cell.NextCellInTbl;
}

- Rick

A

Anonymous

Thanks for the answer, but isn't it iterating through entire table?

frameexpert

Community Expert

var doc = app.ActiveDoc;

var tbl = doc.SelectedTbl;

// Navigate to the first selected row.
var row = tbl.FirstRowInTbl;
while (row.ObjectValid() === 1) {
    if (row.id === tbl.TopRowSelection.id) {
        break;
    }
    row = row.NextRowInTbl;
}
// Process the selected rows.
while (row.ObjectValid() ===1) {
    cell = row.FirstCellInRow;
    while (cell.ObjectValid() === 1) {
        if ((cell.CellColNum >= tbl.LeftColNum) && (cell.CellColNum <= tbl.RightColNum)) {
            // Do something here...
        }
        cell = cell.NextCellInRow;
    }
    if (row.id === tbl.BottomRowSelection.id) {
        break;
    }
    row = row.NextRowInTbl;
}

This should do what you want.

Rick

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