GREP/JS

[tpk1982]

Why the javscript omits slashes, when i wrote something in GREP. Is it possible to include slashes using JS?

[Harbs.]

You need to escape your slashes in scripts.

"\" becomes "\\" and "\\" becomes "\\\\"...

Harbs

[tpk1982]

Hi,

Thanks for yur quick reply. Thats working perfectly. I want to apply a character style. I got a script from another person.

var myParaStyles = app.activeDocument.allParagraphStyles;
for (var i = 0; i < myParaStyles.length; i++){
    try{
        var myParaGrep = myParaStyles.nestedGrepStyles.add();
        myParaGrep.grepExpression = "{put GREP expression}";
        myParaGrep.appliedCharacterStyle = "{put Character Style Name}";
    }
    catch(_){}
}

But it does not take the character style. Whats wrong?

[Jongware]

Just to make sure -- Are you replacing this correctly with the character style name? Does that style name exist? Is it in a group?

{put Character Style Name}

[tpk1982]

Yes, am copy and paste the character style name. But it does not apply.

[grefel]

you cannot submit a string into a nested grepStyle.

a quick fix would be:

change

        myParaGrep.appliedCharacterStyle = "{put Character Style Name}";

to

        myParaGrep.appliedCharacterStyle = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.itemByName("{put Character Style Name}");

this won't work with characterStyleGroups

gregor

[tpk1982]

Excellent, it's working. Another one, my GREP code is,

\S+[[:punct:]]"$

How can i give that closing quotes?

[Jongware]

Use the regular code ~} for curly double closing quotes.

Grefel:

appliedCharacterStyle

CharacterStyle String

r/w

The character style applied to the text. Can also accept: String.

Ouch!

[tomaxxi]

Yes, that's my snippet.

Thanks Jongware for pointing out that appliedCharacterStyle can accept String also.

I tested snippet and it worked just fine for me.

Also I put those commenting strings just like placeholders.

--

tomaxxi

http://indisnip.wordpress.com

[grefel]

hey tomaxxi + jongware,

string is not working here. with a german indesign cs5 + cs4 and windows 64 bit i get an:

Error: Invalid value for set property 'appliedCharacterStyle'. Expected CharacterStyle or String, but received "ziffer".

character style 'ziffer' is in place!

by the way: i think you don't really need a try/catch just start the for-loop at 1 omitting the [No Paragraph Style] style.

var _dok = app.activeDocument;
var _absFormate = _dok.allParagraphStyles;
for (var i = 1; i < _absFormate.length; i++) {
    var _format = _absFormate.nestedGrepStyles.add();
    _format.grepExpression = "//d";
    _format.appliedCharacterStyle = getCharacterStyle("ziffer");
}

function getCharacterStyle (_name) {
    for (var i = 0; i < _dok.allCharacterStyles.length; i++) {
        if (_dok.allCharacterStyles.name == _name ) return _dok.allCharacterStyles;
    }
    return null;
}

gregor

[Peter Kahrel]

Gregor,

This error message:

> Error: Invalid value for set property 'appliedCharacterStyle'. Expected CharacterStyle or String, but received "ziffer".

is misleading as it suggests that you can set the style with a string. But you can't: you have to use an object, as in

. . . = myDoc.characterStyles.item ("ziffer");

Peter

[grefel]

hey peter,

we have been talking about this issue - the documentation seems to be wrong. BUT tomaxxi's and jongware's indesign instances are happy with a string... anyway we can close this topic ... a nested GREP style is a minor issue.

gregor

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http://www.indesignblog.com

[tpk1982]

Hi everybody,

Thanks for your valuable anwers.