Find and replace text SCRIPT

[LindseyB07]

I have been trying to find a scrip that will help me replace a Hard return. This will not work with the menu action. Is any one able to help me. Im not the greatest at coding, I know a little but not enough to right this.

[LindseyB07]

Sorry about my typos. I was typing to fast

[pixxxelschubser]

Give an example *.AI file for testing please.

[LindseyB07]

I am not sure how to up load a file on here but im just trying to replace the line brake you get when you hit the "Enter" Button.

if you copy and past this in to a

AI file there will be a few in here

..

[renél80416020]

Salut

remplacer "\r" par quoi ?

LR

[LindseyB07]

I would like to replace it with "\n" but does not need to be. Found some code that works but will not work with "\n"

[renél80416020]

Salut !

C'est l'inverse de ce que tu demandes...

Change Line-Breaks in Paragraphs by GREP/regex

Bon courage

LR

[LindseyB07]

Code i found that will work

var active_doc = app.activeDocument; 

var search_string = /\r/gi; // g for global search, remove i to make a case sensitive search 

var replace_string = "~"; 

var text_frames = active_doc.textFrames; 

if (text_frames.length > 0) 

{ 

    for (var i = 0 ; i < text_frames.length; i++) 

      { 

          var this_text_frame = text_frames[i]; 

           var new_string = this_text_frame.contents.replace(search_string, replace_string); 

           if (new_string != this_text_frame.contents) 

               { 

                    this_text_frame.contents = new_string; 

               } 

      } 

} 

[CarlosCanto]

this code seemed very familiar, so I searched and digged the original out of the grave

Re: Illustrator Find And Replace

are you good then? or do you still need help?

[LindseyB07]

That is the same code that i found. I am good with this I can make that work. If there is any chance you know how to make \n (Forced line break) I would be very grateful. I cant seem to get it to work. not sure what i am doing wrong.

[renél80416020]

Je te donne la solution

     var s = /\r/g;     // motif pour pour "\r"

     var replacer = String.fromCharCode(3); // pour "\n"

de elleere

[LindseyB07]

you did give me a solution and i am still trying to figure out how to make it work.

[renél80416020 · Accepted solution]

    lindseybock123  Réfléchir tu sais faire ?

Avec le script de CarlosCanto

// JavaScript Document for Illustrator
var active_doc = app.activeDocument;

var search_string = /\r/g; // g for global search, remove i to make a case sensitive search
var replace_string = String.fromCharCode(3); // pour "\n"

var text_frames = active_doc.textFrames;
var this_text_frame, this_text_frame;

if (text_frames.length > 0) {
    for (var i = 0 ; i < text_frames.length; i++) {
          this_text_frame = text_frames[i];
          new_string = this_text_frame.contents.replace(search_string, replace_string);
          this_text_frame.contents = new_string;
    }
}

elleere LR Pour vous servir...

[LindseyB07]

Ya that worked like a charm. I did not recognize where to change thing.1 Thank you again!

[picoOmulu]

Hi! I am using Illustrator 26.2.1 Japanese on Windows 10 Pro 21H1 19043.1706. I saved this scrip as text file with extension .jsx, but it won't work, what am I doing wrong? Tried saving in both UTF-8 and ANSI to no avail. The following error appears:

Error 1302: No such element
Line: 13
-> new_string = this_text_frame.contents.replace(search_string, replace_string);

Hope there's still someone around to check this old thread...

[femkeblanco]

To make the script work again, just replace this line

this_text_frame = text_frames;

with this line

this_text_frame = text_frames[i];

[picoOmulu]

OMG! Fast response, helpful answer! Thank you very much! <kneels in adoration>