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Masood,
What Peter implied is tha,t generally it should not be needed to repeat the grep as it can be handled in the grep expression itself, an example being the use of + in the double space case. Now if you absolutely want to loop then give the following a try
function grepSearch(f,c){
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat=NothingEnum.NOTHING
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo=NothingEnum.NOTHING
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = f;
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = c;
do{
var a =
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You might try something like this where the grep find and change preferences are setup in a function, and then you run the function on the entire document—app.activeDocument.changeGrep()—for each find and change. So this example would run 3 searches to remove extra white space:
//replaces multiple tabs with single tab
grepSearch("\\t+", "\\t");
//removes any white space at the start of a paragraph including multiple returns
grepSearch("^\\s*", "")
//replaces multiple spaces with one space
grepSearch("\\p{zs}{2,}", "\\s")
function grepSearch(f,c){
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat=NothingEnum.NOTHING
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo=NothingEnum.NOTHING
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = f;
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = c;
app.activeDocument.changeGrep( true )
}
You could build other parameters into the function, this would replace plus change the fill color:
grepSearch("Hello", "Hello yourself", "ProcessM");
grepSearch("Goodbye", "Ciao", "ProcessC");
//text to find, change text, change fill color swatch name
function grepSearch(f,c,fc){
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat=NothingEnum.NOTHING
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo=NothingEnum.NOTHING
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = f;
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = c;
app.changeGrepPreferences.fillColor = fc;
app.activeDocument.changeGrep( true )
}
Thanks, Manan for the video and adding the alert. I watched the video and noticed that there were only three instances with double spaces, but if you add more spaces, eg 5+, and run the script again, you'll see what I'm trying to say.
In my example document, I had to run the script five times to see the message "0 instances replaced".
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