Data driven illustrations.

[Beibarys5FFD]

I have text frame with content (lets suppose) "Hello, Mike". Is there any way to make to manipulate what is inside the text frame by csv file. I know there are Variables, but variables modify whole object, what I need is to make like this: "Hello, $(name)", and access this name variable?

[Silly-V · Accepted solution]

This involves work with text ranges, and first you have to turn your special syntax template string into an Illustrator TextRange object. Check out this long-ago thread which goes in depth regarding exactly what you are looking for:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/regexp-search-and-replace-keep-original-text-formatting/m...

[Beibarys5FFD · Accepted solution]

For my personal project this simple code was enough:

var replacer = "Mark";
var content = "hello, @name!"
var modContent = content.replace("@name", replacer);

[Silly-V]

Oh yes that will take care of the basic needs - I had a hablit in my head from some recent work where it was important to maintain a style of characters - so in that respect most of the thread I linked does overcomplicate it.