Script issue: Find/Change is not recognizing the full GREP expression

[Rogerio5C09]

Hi everyone,

Can anyone help me with a script issue? Somehow, my Find/Change is not recognizing the full GREP expression "([\S\s]+)\K\1" when I run the code on Extendscript Toolkit. As shown in the screenshot below, the backslaches and number "1" are missing. Also, I'm unable to include "Condition 1" on Change Format. It seems this line "app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedConditions = "Condition 1"" is not correct.  Here's the script:

var doc = app.activeDocument;

app.findGrepPreferences=app.changeGrepPreferences=null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "([\S\s]+)\K\1";
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = "Character Style 1";
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "";
app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = "Character Style 2";
app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedConditions = "Condition 1"
doc.changeGrep();

Thanks in advance,
Rogerio

[m1b · Accepted solution]

You have to escape the backslashes in the grep pattern string, eg.

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "([\\S\\s]+)\\K\\1";

(I'm not able to test right now, but that is definitely one issue.)

- Mark

[Rogerio5C09]

Hi Mark,

It worked like magic! Thanks for that 🙂

Could you also help me to figure out how to fix this?

Thanks,
Rogerio

[m1b · Accepted solution]

The error says it expects an Array so could you try 

app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedConditions = ['Condition 1'];

- Mark 

[Rogerio5C09]

It worked! Thank you so much 🙂