Grep in a text range

[akiva_atwood]

I'm trying to run a grep on all the text between two subheads -- I can get the range (mySection)  but range.findGrep() returns garbage?

code below

alert(fns) pops up a list of [object TextStyleRange - 10 or more

alert(fns.length) pops up 1

Any suggestions? (I suspect it's something simple)

Thanks

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var startRenumbering="Sub";

sel = app.selection[0];

  app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

  app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat="\r";

  app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle=startRenumbering;

   var x = sel.parentStory.findGrep();

   for(section=0;section<x.length-1;section++){

       mySection=sel.parentStory.characters.itemByRange(x[section].index, x[section+1].index);

       app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

       app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle="fr";

        // app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo="fnNum";

        var fns = mySection.findGrep();

   alert(fns.length);

  }

[Manan Joshi]

A sample document with a bit of description on what is required would help us make some suggestions

[akiva_atwood]

SUBHEAD (with Sub paragraph style)

multiple text paragraphs with note numbers interspersed. The note numbers have a "fr" character style

SUBHEAD TWO (with Sub pStyle)

I need to select the text between the two Subheads -- find the note numbers -- and renumber them starting from 1.

The script above returns the text between the two subheads (mySection) -- alert(mySection.contents) shows the proper text

IF fns (in the line before last of the script) was an array of the grep results I could step through it and change the numbers. But it isn't.

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

Change the line

mySection=sel.parentStory.characters.itemByRange(x[section].index, x[section+1].index)

to the following line

mySection=sel.parentStory.characters.itemByRange(x[section].index, x[section+1].index).getElements()[0];

The mySection in your code was character object, resolving it seems to be working. I am not sure why this happened, pondering over it.

-Manan

[akiva_atwood]

Thanks -- that worked. If you figure out why the change was needed I'd like to know for the future.