• Script that looks for 'double white space' in bodytext…

[dimitri_cas]

Hello -

I am trying to code a small script that will find the double white spaces that are present in all the texts of an AI document.
NB. Double spaces or even more.

The script does not return any error but no result either.
If I replace the double spaces by a string of some characters it works;

Could someone help me?

// Check for 'double white space' in bodytext

if ( app.documents.length > 0 && app.activeDocument.textFrames.length > 0 ) { 
	searchWord = "  ";  //  /\s\s/
	for ( i = 0; i < app.activeDocument.textFrames.length; i++ ) {
		textArt = activeDocument.textFrames[i];
		for (j = 0; j < textArt.words.length; j++) {
			word = textArt.words[j];
			if ( word.contents == searchWord ) {
				alert("YES: "+j);
			}
		}
	}
}

[Silly-V]

Use the global flag for RegExp:

"  abc  sde  ".replace(/\s\s/g, "_")
// "_abc_sde_"
"  abc  op     sde  ".replace(/\s\s/g, "_")
// "_abc_op__ sde_"

[dimitri_cas]

Hey Silly-V -

Thanks for that very quick answer 🙂

Now I don't want to "replace", just know if there are "double spacing" (or even more) in  textfield.

Any idea? Thx

[Silly-V]

You can do:

if ( word.contents.match(/\s\s/) ) {

[dimitri_cas]

Hello again Silly-V -

I adapted the script, bt nothing happen 😞

Again, I sure that I have double spacing or even triple spacing in my text. 

// Check for 'double white space' in bodytext

if ( app.documents.length > 0 && app.activeDocument.textFrames.length > 0 ) { 
	// searchWord = "  ";
	for ( i = 0; i < app.activeDocument.textFrames.length; i++ ) {
		textArt = activeDocument.textFrames[i];
		for (j = 0; j < textArt.words.length; j++) {
			word = textArt.words[j];
			if ( word.contents.match(/\s\s/) ) {
			// if ( word.contents.match(/\s\s/) !== null) {
			// if ( word.contents == searchWord ) {
				alert("YES: "+j);
			}
		}
	}
}

[Silly-V]

OH yea that's cause you are using words. The words property items don't have spaces, because well, words don't have spaces.

Use textFrame.contents to just work on the entire string that still has spaces (the raw text essentially).

[dimitri_cas]

Hey Silly-V -

I replaced as suggested the ".words" with "textFrame.contents".

But sems I'm not there yet  😛

Since it doesn't return the number of "double spacing"

if ( app.documents.length > 0 && app.activeDocument.textFrames.length > 0 ) { 
	var counter = 0;
	for ( i = 0; i < app.activeDocument.textFrames.length; i++ ) {
		textArt = activeDocument.textFrames[i];
		// for (j = 0; j < textArt.words.length; j++) {
			word = textArt.contents;
			if ( word.match(/\s\s/) ) {
				counter++;
			// if ( word.match(/\s\s/) !== null) {
			}
		}
	}
	alert(counter);  // I was expected to see the number of double spacing
}

[femkeblanco]

if (app.documents.length > 0 && app.activeDocument.textFrames.length > 0) { 
    var counter = 0;
    for (var i = 0; i < app.activeDocument.textFrames.length; i++ ) {
        var textArt = activeDocument.textFrames[i];
        var word = textArt.contents;
        var x = word.match(/\s\s/g);  // x is array of matches
        counter += x.length;
    }
}
alert(counter);

[dimitri_cas]

Hello -

Thanks Silly-V

Thanks a lot femkeblanco.

This works!

Next step… I will try to embed this part of this script into a bigger script.

Thank you again, both enjoy your day

- Dimitri

[femkeblanco]

I should have included an apology to @Silly-V for butting in.

[pixxxelschubser]

I have only skimmed your topic. Only as a sidenote:

Depending on what you really want, the wildcard \s is not a good idea!

The whitespace special character \s matches any of the specific whitespaces. For example the "normal" space (␣), the tab (\t), the new line (\n), and the carriage return (\r) and also any other kind of white spaces.

If that's not your real goal, you should limit the search to the specific space character. And instead of searching for two spaces, search for "two or more" spaces.

Replace this line:

var x = word.match(/\s\s/g);  // x is array of matches

with this:

var x = word.match(/\u0020{2,}/g);  // x is array of matches

And don't use "word" as the variable name for the contents of the text frame. This will extremely confuse you and anyone who wants to read the script.

[pixxxelschubser]

Hi @dimitri_cas 

the worst feedback is no feedback at all ...

Did you have success?