Regexp for removing object character code? [JS CS4]

[dsackett]

I've got a routine that makes a list of headlines & sorts them, which ends up as bookmarks. When a headline contains an anchored object, the resulting text includes a glyph, a tiny dotted box with 'OBJ' in it, which looks bad in the final list of bookmarks. Using string.charAt(x) for the character returns 65532.

I suppose I could write a function that loops through the sentence's characters & discards any 65532, but that seems like overkill if there's a regexp replace string. I already run string.replace(/\s+/g, " ") to replace non-space invisible ctrl characters w/space, but that pattern doesn't affect the object character. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

Thanks.

[Guest · Accepted solution]

It's the "Anchored object marker" (InDesign name) or "Object replacement character" (Unicode name) . 65532 in hexadecimal is FFFC, so in java/javascript unicode notation it is "\uFFFC".

myString = myString.replace(/\uFFFC/,"");

You can use this to find the hexadecimal unicode value of a character:

myString.charCodeAt(myIndex).toString(16)

[dsackett]

Awesome, Haakenlid, thank you so much! The snippet worked like a charm.

And I really appreciate having a method for discovering the hex for unicode of any character.

Thanks again.

[_Jongware_-9BC6tI]

... I really appreciate having a method for discovering the hex for unicode of any character.

If the character is somewhere in your text, all you have to do is select just this character and look in the Info panel.

[Guest]

[Jongware] wrote:

... I really appreciate having a method for discovering the hex for unicode of any character.

If the character is somewhere in your text, all you have to do is select just this character and look in the Info panel.

That's a good tip. Turns out that "Right Indent Tab" has Unicode value 8, which outside of InDesign is supposed to be "Backspace". There are a few of those tricky special characters in InDesign.

[jatoh_5355]

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