find and replace text in illustrator

[nandhinin87775610]

Hi,

How to perform find and replace text in illustrator using javascript?

any predefined functions in illustrator like in indesign..

app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "XXX"; 

app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = "YYY"; 

app.activeDocument.changeText();

for now I have achieved find/replace by using iterating all textFrames and replace the contents

but it is not a better solution

pls help..

Thanks

[Loic.Aigon]

I don't think there is any other way.

[jamesn44620985]

Hi, new poster here.  While we're on the subject, I was using the Find/Replace tool to change a return/linebreak to this: tab/linebreak/tab, but it seems you can't copy and paste line breaks into the 'Find...' or 'Replace...' fields.

It seems the tool will only recognise hard line breaks ('shift/return' as opposed to just 'return') but it is VITAL I'm able to identify plain line breaks and not hard line breaks - any way of doing this via key commands?  The ^p only seems to recognise hard line breaks, not soft ones.  Also, if there is any way of doing a key command for the 'tab' too that would be fab.

Currently using AI late 2017, on a Windows 7 PC.

Many thanks for any help - hope any of you are able to shed light on this issue thanks.