Within the normal Find/Change dialog it's not a problem. But if I take the expression to the FindChangeList.txt to use with the FindChangeByList.jsx I receive no results. Who can help me?
This is my line in the FindChangeList.txt:
grep {findWhat:"(\d\d?).(\d\d?) ?- ?"} {changeTo:"$1.$2~="} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false}
But Peter, why is it necessary, given that the default 'FindWhats' don't use escaped backslashes, ie:
grep {findWhat:"\t\t+"} {changeTo:"\t"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Find all double tab characters and replace with single tab characters.
I don't know, probably a mistake. It's an easy one to make, as I find out almost every day. By the way, there's a comment in the script that tells you to escape backslashes:
//If you enter backslashes in the findWhat property of the findGrepPreferences object,
//they must be "escaped" as shown in the example below:
//
//{findWhat:"\\s+"}
But I can't understand 2 things:
1) How Olav could possibly have made a mistake! :)
2) How come his lines work without being escaped, whereas mine was utterly ignored?
Well, it probably wasn't a mistake after all (heaven forbid!). When you use \t and \r you don't need to escape the backslash. When you write "\\t" the script uses \t (you can see that in the Find/Change dialog after running the script). But when you write "\t" in the script, it in fact uses the tab control character: after running this, the Find/Chage dialog shows a small square.
So it happens that with \t and \r there's no need to escape because these two have a special meaning in general. For instance, you can use them in alerts to tab or create new lines. All other backslashed should be escaped though, as without them the strings become meaningless.
Can you use the findchangeby list to apply certain character style. I have tried and only the find and replace portion of the script seems to work. I want to find several instances of all capped words and turn them into superscripts.
grep[TAB]{findWhat: "\\u+"}
[TAB]{position: Position.superscript}
[TAB]{includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true}
[TAB]Caps to super
but replace [TAB] with a proper tab, and it should be on one line, so no returns.
I have several lines that look like this
********* ******* ******* 225/45R17XL *** ** ** ** **
The spaces between the astrixs represent TABs
I want the XL to be superscript
I have several other items that i need superscript all would be capped. Not all have the same amount of characters. (i.e) RRBL, RFT, XL, DSST
since the info i want to change is after the 3rd tab would this be it?
grep[TAB]{findWhat: "\\u+"}
[3]{position: Position.superscript}
[3]{includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true}
[3]Caps to super
Where I wrote "replace [TAB] with a proper tab" I meant remove [TAB] and press the tab key. Each line in the script has five elements separated by a tab. That's explained in the script itself, so you should first read that introduction. Your proposed solution and your query about variable-length strings suggest that it's probably also a good idea for you to familiarise yourself with Grep.
What you want to achieve is not entirely straightforward. Your original problem (just finding strings up capitals) is easy; what you describe in your last post is a different matter.
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