Filter page items by property in Javascript

[johneday]

What is the Javascript equivalent to this AppleScript?

set xxx to every page item whose note = "John"

After looking at some of the tutorials, I pieced this together. Is there a better way of doing this? With 30,000 path items it took over a minute to execute...

docRef = app.activeDocument;

var pathLength = docRef.pathItems.length;

docRef.pathItems[0].note;

var hitList = []

for (i = 0; i<pathLength; i++)

{

if (docRef.pathItems.note= "John")

{

hitList.push(i)  

}

}

alert(hitList.length)

[moluapple]

No better way I think, but shouldn’t it be if (docRef.pathItems.note == "John") ?

And if you only want to get length, there is no need for create an array, just increase the count is OK, maybe a little faster.

[CarlosCanto]

over a minute to process 30,000 items is awsome.

[johneday]

So like this?

docRef = app.activeDocument;

var pathLength = docRef.pathItems.length;

docRef.pathItems[0].note;

var myCount = 0

for (i = 0; i<pathLength; i++)

{

if (docRef.pathItems.note== "JD")

{

myCount = myCount + 1

}

}

alert(myCount)

[Muppet_Mark-phjQ9l]

myCount++ like you did with i