apply CharacterStyle jast to "word" without space or dot are before and after "word".

[tabalvor_andisheh]

Hi,

I've got a script that searches for content like this and apply CharacterStyle jast to "word" without space or dot or , ...:

word

word.

word,

:word

I then do:

// ...........................................................................................

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var selectedtext = myDoc.selection[0].contents;
var ChStyle = myDoc.selection[0].appliedCharacterStyle.name;
selectedtext = '(?<=\.|،)' + selectedtext + '(?=\.|،)';
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = selectedtext;
app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = ChStyle;
myDoc.changeGrep();

// ...........................................................................................

I only want to find the contents with the dot.

But this code applied CharacterStyle to all Character of my text ("word.") While I just want to apply to "Word"

Does anyone know why?

Thanks,

david

[Manan Joshi]

Try by changing the selectedText to the following

selectedtext = '(?<=\\.|،)' + "selectedtext" + '(?=\\.|،)';

Also, you should always reset to null the find/change preferences before and after running the query, i.e., add the following two lines before and after the code snippet you pasted

app.findGrepPreferences = null;

app.changeGrepPreferences = null;

-Manan

[tabalvor_andisheh · Accepted solution]

Thanks Manan!
Your suggestion was almost correct and made me find the problem, only the quotes were extra:

This is true:

selectedtext = '(?<=\\.|،)' + selectedtext + '(?=\\.|،)';

[FRIdNGE]

Variable contents in a lookahead doesn't work!

Correct Grep code line:

selectedtext = '\\b' + selectedtext + '(?=\\.)';

(^/)  The Jedi

[Peter Kahrel]

> Variable contents in a lookahead doesn't work!

It does. In lookbehind it doesn't work.

P.

[FRIdNGE]

Oups! I mean "lookbehind" of course (see my Grep code)!  =D

[Thanks Peter for the comment!]

(^/)