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app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo to a callback?

Participant ,
Aug 11, 2023 Aug 11, 2023

I can use app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "$1"; to insert the first match of  app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat. But how can I do this per found item as a call to a function? Can I give it a callback, and if yes: how..?

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Participant , Aug 11, 2023 Aug 11, 2023

OK, I dont know if there is a solution with changeTo, but I found a simple solution with findGrep and iteration thru the results:

	app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\{\{[^:]*\:[^}]*\}\}";
	var hits = app.activeDocument.findGrep();
	for (var i = 0; i < hits.length; i++) {
 		hits[i].contents = hits[i].contents.replace(/\{\{([^:]*)\:([^}]*)\}\}/g,callback_function_here);
	}
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Participant ,
Aug 11, 2023 Aug 11, 2023

OK, I dont know if there is a solution with changeTo, but I found a simple solution with findGrep and iteration thru the results:

	app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\{\{[^:]*\:[^}]*\}\}";
	var hits = app.activeDocument.findGrep();
	for (var i = 0; i < hits.length; i++) {
 		hits[i].contents = hits[i].contents.replace(/\{\{([^:]*)\:([^}]*)\}\}/g,callback_function_here);
	}
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Community Expert ,
Aug 11, 2023 Aug 11, 2023

Hi @Lordrhavin, that is the normal way I think. However, bear in mind that editing the contents will replace any textStyleRanges in hits[i] with the styling of the first textStyleRange of hits[i]. So if you find "ABC" and the "B" is bold, you will lose that bold style and "ABC" will be styled to match "A". If this is a problem in your case, you can simply do a second changeGrep (or multiple changeGreps) on the found text, eg. hits[i].changeGrep().

- Mark

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Participant ,
Aug 11, 2023 Aug 11, 2023

I just ound out it is even worse: if I have the fifth char of my search text in bold, i end up with the fifth cha of my replace text in bold. How can I give the whole replacement text the style of the first search char? Because: that would be great!

 

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Community Expert ,
Aug 11, 2023 Aug 11, 2023

I'm surprised it works that way. I can't test it myself right now. Anyway try doing a changeGrep() or changeText() on the hits(i) text object. 

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Community Expert ,
Aug 11, 2023 Aug 11, 2023

Try setting the content to the first insertion point of the found text and then set the found text to blank. Also, you should execute your loop in reverse order, to cater for cases where the search and replacement are of different length. Soemthing like the following

for(var i = hits.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){
    hits[i].insertionPoints[0].contents = "replacementtext" 
    hits[i].contents = ""
}

-Manan

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Participant ,
Aug 11, 2023 Aug 11, 2023

@Manan Joshi Thatr jut sucesfully removed all my text^^ 😄

it looks like this at my oe:

 

	for(var i = hits.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){
		hits[i].insertionPoints[0].contents = hits[i].insertionPoints[0].contents.replace(/\{\{([^:]*)\:([^}]*)\}\}/g,lookupEntry);
		hits[i].contents = "";
	}
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Community Expert ,
Aug 11, 2023 Aug 11, 2023

It does not remove the whole text for me. Probably you share a sample file for me to test the grep expression and your replacement. However, my code does not work as I intended. The following works for me though

for(var i = hits.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){
    hits[i].insertionPoints.itemByRange(1, -1).contents = ""
    hits[i].contents = "replacementtext"
}

-Manan

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Community Expert ,
Aug 11, 2023 Aug 11, 2023

Also looking at your code, you should run the replace method on hits[i].contents and not hits[i].insertionPoints[0].contents. So the code would be something like

 

for(var i = hits.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){
    var rt = hits[i].contents.replace(/\{\{([^:]*)\:([^}]*)\}\}/g,lookupEntry)
    hits[i].insertionPoints.itemByRange(1, -1).contents = ""
    hits[i].contents = rt
}

 

-Manan

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Community Expert ,
Aug 11, 2023 Aug 11, 2023
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What EXACTLY are you trying to achieve? 

 

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