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Hi @ai8153 , Do you want to restore your starting selection? There‘s also this which gets the text from the cursor to the end of the story and uses that for the search:
var sel = app.activeDocument.selection
if (sel.length>0) {
if (sel[0].hasOwnProperty("parentStory")) {
var myFound = []
var ps = sel[0].parentStory;
var si = sel[0].insertionPoints[-1]
var ei = ps.texts[0].insertionPoints[-2];
//gets the text from the start of the selection to the end of the story
var tr = ps.insertionPoints.itemByRange(si,ei).texts[0]
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = app.findChangeGrepOptions = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\[|\\]";
myFound = tr.findGrep()[0];
if (myFound.length>0) {
myFound[0].select();
}
} else {alert("No Text Selected")}
} else {alert("No Text Selected")}
Before and after:
This might not be as easy as it seems—there are a lot of variables. You could create a function with my code that returns true when the last result is selected, and from there you could loop other stories, but stories are not necessarily in reading order:
var sel = app.activeDocument.selection
if (sel.length>0) {
if (sel[0].hasOwnProperty("parentStory")) {
//the story to search, the starting insertion point, the grep
var gs = getNextGrep(sel[0].parentStory, sel[0].insertionPoints[-1], "\\[|\\]")
if (gs){
alert("End of Story. Go to next story")
}
} else {alert("No Text Selected")}
} else {alert("No Text Selected")}
/**
* Searches for the next instance of a Grep search
* @ param ps, the story to search
* @ param si, the starting insertion point index
* @ param g, the Grep pattern
* @ returns true if the last instance is selected
*
*/
function getNextGrep(ps, si, g){
var b = false
var f = []
var ei = ps.texts[0].insertionPoints[-2];
var tr = ps.insertionPoints.itemByRange(si,ei).texts[0]
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = app.findChangeGrepOptions = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = g;
f = tr.findGrep()[0];
if (f.length>0) {
f[0].select();
} else {
b = true
}
return b
}
Right, the number of different variables makes this difficult. The function works if the text is in a text frame pasted in the cell, but not with text directly in the cell. It would take a lot of work to sort through all of the possibilities.
By @rob day
Not a problem with my ID-Tasker.
Unless there are 100s of results to process - even free version can speed up the job quite significantly.
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