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this isn't EXACTLY how i described it above.. but this is the one i was testing with. it doesn't have the conditional statement to figure out whether it should use asterisks or peren's and i've just hard coded the string from the textFrame. This worked for me. Perhaps this will be more helpful than that wall of text and attempts at explanations..
...function getRoster()
{
var roster = {};
var text = "(4) AL #'s 1,2,3,4\
(13) AXL #'s 5,7,8,9,10,11,12,14,15,17,19,20,21\
(4) AXXL #'s 22,23,2
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Hi beymig​,
like Silly-V​ said – to little informations.
A shot into the sky:
// Textstring_findStringInDocTextframesWithRegex.jsx
// https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2150605
var msg = new Array();
var hit, reg, text;
var frames = app.activeDocument.textFrames;
for (var j = 0; j < frames.length; j++) {
text = frames
.contents; reg = /\(\d+\)[LX ]+#\'s [\d,]+/g;
while (hit = reg.exec(text)) {
msg.push (hit[0].replace (" #'s", ''));
}
}
alert (msg.join ("\r"));
Have fun
Hi pixxxel schubser​
Thank you for your help!
Sorry about not providing enough information, you are totally right. In my reply to Silly-V I gave some more. I'll work around I little bit with your code, and if you have another input with the new information I just provided, please feel free to add it! I will truly appreciate it.
Using just your example of 4 lines in a single text frame, I was able to craft this:
#target illustrator
function test(){
function quickView(msg, title){
if(title == undefined){
title = '';
}
var w = new Window('dialog', title);
var e = w.add('edittext', undefined, msg, {multiline:true, readonly:true});
e.size = [700,500];
var okbtn = w.add('button', undefined, 'Ok');
w.show();
};
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var t = doc.selection[0];
var text = t.contents;
var textArray = text.split(/[\r\n]/g);
var processedItems = [], thisObj, thisLine;
for(var i=0; i<textArray.length; i++){
thisLine = textArray;
thisObj = {
size : thisLine.match(/\s[A-Z]+\s/)[0].replace(/\s/g, ''),
count : parseInt( thisLine.match(/\(.+\)/g)[0].replace(/(^\(|\)$)/g, '') ),
numbers : thisLine.match(/\s\d+,?.+/)[0].replace(/\s/g, "").split(",")
};
processedItems.push(thisObj);
};
var testMessage = processedItems.toSource().replace(/}\), \({/g, "}),\n({");
quickView(testMessage);
};
test();
It's not perfect and any deviation from your example format will throw it off. If you have some other words in that text box, please provide a really diverse case which encompasses some of the complexity you're expecting.
For this test though, make 1 text frame and paste your 4 lines in and make sure the text frame is selected (not the text inside) to get your result.
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Well williamadowling​​ you definitively have the best psychic powers lol.
And oh, I'm truly sorry about your basement, that sounds awful.
Here is the link for the files:
I put there the three different scenarios that the script would encounter:
- Count and Sizes
- Count, Sizes and Numbers
- Count, Sizes, Numbers and Names
This is only part of a bigger script that should open all the AI files from an specific folder and get the count, sizes, numbers, names and perform a bunch of some other stuff. I have the beginning and the rest of it figured it out, but this piece I'm starting to do it from scratch.
Thanks so much for the help! To all of you guys
Hi @Silly-V
The Company's Artists do that. It is a standard procedure that they are not willing to change. I know for scripting it would be much simpler to do it differently, but that's how it is 
.
Thank you again for your interest and help
Hi williamadowling​
Thank you for not forgetting me! Don't worry take your time .
Answering your question, yes I need the script to find and select the correct frame. The only thing they all have in common in the word TOTAL. So I think that may help.
Thanks again!
indeed.. Total was the word that i was using to find the frame.. and i was surprised when my array of text frames had a length of 2.. that's when i noticed the other text frame hiding in there. Shouldn't be an issue.
Honestly i think the annoying part is that sometimes the quantity is inside (parentheses) and other times it's inside *asterisks*. Again, not a fatal issue, but an annoyance to be sure.
So I'm not sure what you have written yet, if anything. But maybe it'll help to just spell out the process i'm envisioning, perhaps you'll be able to tease out the details on your own and be better for it. (not to mention then you wouldn't have to wait on me )
before anything, define a script/function global object you can use to store the roster info you collect.
var roster = {};
1) To find the textFrame, i simply looped the app.activeDocument's textFrames and checked for an instance of "Total:" and push true results to an array. (bonus points if the desired textFrames are always on a consistent/predictable layer.. i haven't looked closely enough to see whether that was the case on your samples).
2) then compare the 2 text frames to determine which one is correct. It looks like the only time there will be 2 is when names are involved. otherwise, there seems to only be 1 textFrame that contains the string "Total:". Save the correct textFrame to a variable.
3) next you want to split the textFrame by '\n' so that you get an array of lines. at that point, you can loop the array/lines and pull out the data for each size.
per your first example of the textFrame formatting earlier in this thread, we'll assume that thus far we've done this:
var text = "(4) AL #'s 1,2,3,4\
(13) AXL #'s 5,7,8,9,10,11,12,14,15,17,19,20,21\
(4) AXXL #'s 22,23,25,27\
(1) AXXXL #'s 34\
\
TOTAL: 22"
var lines = text.split('\n');
at this point lines[0] is equal to the string: "(4) AL #'s 1,2,3,4"
4) pull the quantity and size from the current line with substring and indexOf (someone may have a much better solution, but this is what i know and what works for me.) like so:
var thisQuantity = lines[0].substring(0,lines[0].indexOf(" "); //result: "(4)"
alternatively, you could write some logic to figure out whether the quantity is enclosed in ( ) or * * and remove those from the get go so you can push the quantity only to the desired location.
if (lines[0].indexOf("*") > -1)
{
thisQuantity = lines[0].substring(lines[0].indexOf("*"),lines[0].indexOf("* ")
thisSize = lines[0].substring(lines[0].indexOf("* "), lines[0].indexOf("#");
}
else
{
thisQuantity = lines[0].substring(lines[0].indexOf("("),lines[0].indexOf(")");
thisSize = lines[0].substring(lines[0].indexOf(") "), lines[0].indexOf("#");
}
5) next determine the beginning of the numbers
var numberSet = lines[0].substring(lines[0].indexOf("#'s "), lines[0].length-1);
numberSet = numberSet.split(","); // result = ["1","2","3","4"]
6) push the data into your "roster" object.
roster["sizes"] = {};
roster["sizes"][thisSize] = {};
roster["sizes"][thisSize]["quantity"] = thisQuantity;
roster["sizes"][thisSize]["numbers"] = numberSet;
7) last thing to do is presumably return the value of "roster" (assuming you're running this from a specific "get roster info" function) and save the returned value to a variable.
Hopefully this made some sense.. Let me know if i went astray anywhere or if there's anything that is unclear or simply outlandish.
Hi williamadowling​! It's been a while. I have been working in some others projects but today I finally finished this one. Your help was the more helpful so here I am making it as the correct answer.
Thanks a lot for all your help.
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