how to find last paragraph through scripting in js

[vaishnavi]

can u help me in code of scripting in js to find the last paragraph of text story in a text frame

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

With the textframe selected, run the following

app.selection[0].parentStory.paragraphs[-1]

-Manan

[vaishnavi]

var myDocument=app.documents.add();

var myTextFrame = myDocument.pages.item(0).textFrames.add();

myTextFrame.geometricBounds=["6p","6p","24p","24p"];

myTextFrame.contents="She is an essence of truthfulness, love, and sincerity. Another reason is that she showers her family with her blessing and live. Furthermore, she gives us everything but never demand anything in return. The way she cares for everyone in the family inspires me to the same in my future\n Also, her love is not just for the family she treats every stranger and animals the same way she did to me. Due to, this she is very kind and sensible towards the environment and animals.";

sel = myTextFrame;

var cat=myTextFrame.parentStory.paragraphs[-1];

alert(cat.contents);

alert("paragraph selected");

this is my code but its giving the entire text.

can u suggest me possible corrections.

[Manan Joshi]

In your contents string change \n to \r. \n creates a soft return and hence a new paragraph is not created that is the reason you get the whole content of the paragraph. \r creates two paragraphs

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-Manan

[vaishnavi]

thanks a lot for your help.can you suggest me from where one can read and gain knowledge about scripting

[Manan Joshi]

See a related post that lists resources on how to learn scripting for InDesign

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/what-are-some-good-resources-for-learning-extendscript/td-p/...

-Manan