Get Page number of the search text

[MonishaRajendran]

Hi,

I tried to fetch the count of a particular text in a document according to pages but it does nothing, for that, I used

var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
var myPages = myDocument.pages.length;

app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "Hi";
var list = app.activeDocument.findGrep ();
for(var i =0; i<= list.length; i++)
{
alert("No of Occurence in page "+myPages +" is "+ list[myPages].length);
app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;

}

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

Review your code please. So list would be an array of text/word objects now in this collection you are a picking an element at myPages which is the number of pages in the document which is fixed.

So let's say you have a document with 10 pages. And you have Hi on page number 1 and 5. So myPages would be 10 and list would be an array on length 2. So list[myPages] i.e. list[10] as list has only 2 elements would be undefined and for cases where you would get a valid document the length would always give the value 2 i.e. length of the "Hi"

Try to fix this before you move on to getting the page.

-Manan

[MonishaRajendran · Accepted solution]

Hi @Manan Joshi 

Thanks for your feedback to identify my mistake. By modifying the above code, I am now able to retrieve the page number of the searched text. Here is the code I used.

var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
var myPages = myDocument.pages.length;
app.findGrepPreferences=NothingEnum.NOTHING; 
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = 'Hi'; 
var find = app.activeDocument.findGrep (); 
for (var i = 0; i < find.length; i++) { 
var getSearchTextPageNumber = find [i].parentTextFrames[0].parentPage.name + '\n'; 

}

[Manan Joshi]

Good work. Now some more pointers on your latest improved code snippet. The myPages variable is not used you can remove it. In the statement find [i].parentTextFrames[0].parentPage.name what would happen in case the textframe is on the pasteboard, i.e. does not have a valid parentPage? You might want to put in appropriate checks for this condition.

-Manan