lastIndexOf ("/") InDesign CS4 JavaScript

[Yuliaart]

Hi,

I need lastIndexOf ("/") of myDocPath, but the line gives me error all the time. Is it because of '/', but shouldn't it be perceived as a string since it's in the double quotes. Here is my script:

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myDocPath = myDoc.path;
var myFolderSplit = myDocPath.lastIndexOf ("/")

and it brakes at the green line. How can I get around it.

Thank you very much for your help.

Yulia

[Kasyan Servetsky]

Document doesn't have path property. However, I don't understand what you want to get in myFolderSplit .

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myDocPath = myDoc.filePath.absoluteURI;
var myFolderSplit = myDocPath.lastIndexOf("/");

[Yuliaart]

I need the part of the path to the last '/' and index of it should give me the number of characters in the path to that point.

[Yuliaart]

Thank you, it works now.

[Kasyan Servetsky · Accepted solution]

Do you want to get path to the folder in which myDoc is located?

[Yuliaart]

Actually I am saving it into the folder that is one step up in the Finder system.

[Kasyan Servetsky]

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myFilePath = myDoc.filePath;
var myParentFolder = myFilePath.parent;
var myNewFile = new File(myParentFolder.absoluteURI + "/" + myDoc.name);
myDoc.save(myNewFile);

[Yuliaart]

WOW! how elegant, I definitely went the hard way. Thank  you so much.

Yulia