How do I get a script to read lines from Notepad as style names?

[dublove]

Hello, everyone.
I want to put a notepad "name.txt" in the same directory as the scripts.
The style names used in all my scripts will read the ones set in "name.txt".
This way I can change them uniformly at any time.
Is there a way to do this?

For example, the content of my notepad looks like this, one style name per line.
In parentheses ( ) are the style names:

paraStname(mypar)
charStname(title1)
tabStname(mytab)
footerStname(footer)
objStaname(mypic)

Thank you very much.

[Manan Joshi]

Thanks for the update. What I would suggest is to take some time to analyze the error, trusting the knowledge that you know and have verified to be working and trying to understand what the error is trying to say. If you do this, spend a little time without straightaway asking for help then you would be able to write much better and complex code.

-Manan

[dublove]

@Manan Joshi 

Can I quote the path? It didn't work for me.

For example, I want to check if there is a certain folder under a certain path, and create a new one if I find that there is not.

"exPDFname" : "PDF",

"exPDFpath" : "Folder.desktop"

var exPDFname = contentObj.exPDFname;
var exPDFpath = contentObj.exPDFpath;


#target indesign;
//Detect the presence of PDF catalog
var SCRIPTS_FOLDER = decodeURI(exPDFpath);
var folder1 = Folder(SCRIPTS_FOLDER + "/" + exPDFname);
//Check if it exist, if not create it.
if (!folder1.exists) folder1.create();
if (!folder1.exists) alert("You need to run this script as Administrator\nThe folder was NOT created");

[Manan Joshi]

Did you write the following in JSON? And expect to get the path of desktop in the script when using this property?

exPDFpath" : "Folder.desktop"

 If so then this is not going to work. Folder is an object that makes sense inside InDesign script. Using it as a constant inside a text file will not automatically result in its evaluation.

-Manan

[dublove]

Yes, I'm trying to use this in json:
exPDFpath" : "Folder.desktop"
I hope this can be customized later.

Is there any way in jsx,
to convert var exPDFpath = contentObj.exPDFpath; to an object that makes sense as you say.

[Manan Joshi]

Not recommended but you can try the following

var exPDFpath = eval(contentObj.exPDFpath);

-Manan

[dublove]

Perfect.
So amazing.
Thank you so much.

[dublove]

There are two possibilities:
"exPDFpath" : "C:"
"exPDFpath" : "Folder.desktop"
Two inputs, is there a way to automatically determine if conversion is needed?

[Manan Joshi]

If you are using a hardcoded actual path then it needs no conversion. However, if you are using something that is actually a javascript code that would need conversion.

-Manan

[brian_p_dts]

Learning to debug your own code is part of the journey as a developer, amateur or otherwise. There is no magic solution that is going to debug errors like that.