Text Find/Change | Syntax for two special characters <FEFF> next to each other
Hi all,
just found an oddity with InDesign's app.findTextPreferences.findWhat concerning special characters.
I wanted to find two special characters encoded as <FEFF> that are next to each other.
Did that with InDesign's UI Text Find/Replace function and typed <FEFF><FEFF> in the search field.
In my sample document there were two of them next to each other so the result was:
one single instance.
Now the scripting side:
app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "<FEFF><FEFF>";
var result = app.documents[0].findText();
alert(result.length); // 2
"<FEFF><FEFF>" found two instances instead of one.
The special characters in my sample document contain one Note object each so I could read out the Note's id number and found that indeed the two notes were found twice!
My solution was to change the search string a bit:
app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "<FEFF>"+"<FEFF>";
var result = app.documents[0].findText();
alert(result.length); // 1
That gave me the right number of results.
Tested with InDesign CS 6 v8.1.0 and CC 2017 v12.0.0.81 on OSX 10.10.5.
Did I detect a bug?
Or should special strings always be written on their own as substrings and concatenated when working with Text Find/Replace ?
Regards,
Uwe
Message was edited by: Uwe Laubender
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