Changing Paragraph Style Names

[techzol]

Forgive me if this has been asked and answered. I've been searching on line and in the forums and cannot quite seem to find a direct answer to my question. I am converting large numbers of documents from the oldest version of InDesign to ID6. The problem I'm facing is that we used spaces in style names earlier but no longer do so for future compatability/flexibility reasons. Is there a way to write a script that will sort through existing paragraph style names and change them, or lease delete any spaces? Thanks

[Vamitul]

try this:

var doc=app.activeDocument;
var myPstyles=doc.allParagraphStyles, l=myPstyles.length;
while (l--){
myPstyles.name=myPstyles.name.replace(" ","_"); //replace the space character with a underscore
}
alert ("Done!\nYou can go outside an play now");

for character styles just replace the

var myPstyles=doc.allParagraphStyles with

var myPstyles=doc.allCharacterStyles

[Jongware]

Vamitul, that's how I'd do it as well but you'd better add a try .. catch around the rename line. There is a small chance that a duplicate name would occur (if you have a "body text" and a "body_text" as well ), but also you cannot rename "Basic Paragraph" nor "No Paragraph style".

[Vamitul]

Jongware, you are right as always..

var doc=app.activeDocument; 
var myPstyles=doc.allParagraphStyles, l=myPstyles.length; 
while (l--){
try{
myPstyles.name=myPstyles.name.replace(" ","_"); //replace the space character with a underscore
}catch(e){}
} 
alert ("Done!\nYou can go outside an play now");

ps. Still an Elite fan? See you in StarCitizen?

[Jongware]

StarCitizen? Nah, I'm going to wait for Elite:Dangerous! (a.k.a. "David Braben Is Still Alive")

[Peter Kahrel]

.name.replace(" ","_") replaces just the first space. To replace all spaces in a name you should use a regular expression: .name.replace(/\x20/g,"_")

Peter

[Vamitul]

always assumed the "replace" method to work as global. Never even knew that the first arg is actualy a regex.

guess.. live an learn.

thanks Peter

[Peter Kahrel]

> Never even knew that the first arg is actualy a regex.

The first argument of replace() isn't actually a regex: it can be one.

Peter