Create list of character Styles

[lucc9908231]

Hello,

I want to create a script that creates a whole series of character Styles but I get stuck on line 11 " myStyles.forEach((styleName => {"
can someone help me

thank you

var new_Style = app.documents[0].characterStyles.add()
 
	const myStyles = [
		'Bold',
		'Italic',
		'A',
		'B',
		'C',
	];
	
	myStyles.forEach((styleName => {
		new_Style.name =(styleName)
	});

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Are you writing this script in ExtendScript?

There is no native function forEach() in ExtendScript.

Why don't you simply loop the array with the names?

var namesArray = [ "Bold", "Italic", "A", "B", "C" ];

for( var n=0; n<namesArray.length; n++ )
{
	app.documents[0].characterStyles.add
	(
		{
			name : namesArray[n]
		}
	)
};

You could also add more property-value pairs in the object that is the argument of the add() function.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[lucc9908231]

Thanks Laubender

this works well
I work in visual studio code

[Marc Autret]

Hi @Laubender 

Actually there is a for each loop in ExtendScript (although most scripters didn't notice or don't use it.)

var namesArray = [ "Bold", "Italic", "A", "B", "C" ];
var CS = app.documents[0].characterStyles;
var nm;

for each( nm in namesArray ) CS.add({ name : nm });

Works fine with Object instances and regular Array instances. (By ‘regular,’ I mean an array whose own properties are indexes, no extra keys being declared.)

Best,

Marc

[Manan Joshi]

Hi @lucc9908231,

Extendscript is based on ECMAScript 3 so modern features like for each, arrow functions etc are not available. You need to use simple constructs like traditional for loop as @Laubender mentioned.

-Manan

[lucc9908231]

Thanks for the info Manan

[rob day]

There’s also for in:

var namesArray = [ "Bold", "Italic", "A", "B", "C" ];

for (x in namesArray) {
    app.documents[0].characterStyles.add({name:namesArray[x]})
}