Find / replace within applescript
I am working on a script to change the file path of a hyperlink
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
tell active document
set listOfButtons to every button
repeat with thisButton in listOfButtons
tell thisButton
set FilePath to file path of goto anchor behaviors
return FilePath
end tell
end repeat
end tell
end tell
the answer I get is : {"Content:Pricelist:Catalog:Interactief:BE:21_ES_Ventielen_be_dig.indd"}
Now I want to change "BE" into "FR" and "be" into "fr"
(in the future I will have to change it to other suffix, so it would be nice if this can be included as well )
Can anyone help we to do this?
Mark,
I had to change the final command to
set file path of goto anchor behaviors of thisButton to NewPath
I changed the script a little bit because I noticed that "to items 1 thru 4" didn't work on all the files
this is the new script:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
tell active document
set listOfButtons to every button
repeat with thisButton in listOfButtons
tell thisButton
set FilePath to file path of goto anchor behaviors
set ASTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters -- Store settings
set ButtonPath to (item 1 of FilePath) as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":" -- Everything splits at this character
set PathBits to text items of ButtonPath -- Slice it…
repeat with i from 1 to count PathBits
considering case
if item i of PathBits is "NL" then
set item i of PathBits to "FR"
end if
end considering
end repeat
set TempPath to items 1 thru i of PathBits as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "_" -- Now everything splits at this character
set DocBits to text items of TempPath
repeat with j from 1 to count DocBits
considering case
if item j of DocBits is "nl" then
set item j of DocBits to "fr"
end if
end considering
end repeat
set NewPath to items 1 thru j of DocBits as string
set file path of goto anchor behaviors of thisButton to NewPath
end tell
end repeat
end tell
end tell
Now I just have to make it possible to do this for all the buttons in a document. First I want to make it possible to choose the original path and doc...
This is what I've got at this moment:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
tell active document
--choose path
set PathOrigArray to {"BE", "FR", "NL", "EX", "DE"}
set PathOrigID to choose from list PathOrigArray with prompt "Selecteer de map met originele bestanden." OK button name "Update book" without multiple selections allowed
set PathNewArray to {"FR", "NL", "EX", "DE"}
set PathNewID to choose from list PathNewArray with prompt "Selecteer de map met nieuwe bestanden." OK button name "Update book" without multiple selections allowed
--choose doc
set DocOrigArray to {"be", "fr", "nl", "ex", "de"}
set DocOrigID to choose from list DocOrigArray with prompt "Selecteer de suffix van de originele bestanden." OK button name "Update book" without multiple selections allowed
set DocNewArray to {"fr", "nl", "ex", "de"}
set DocNewID to choose from list DocNewArray with prompt "Selecteer de suffix van de nieuwe bestanden." OK button name "Update book" without multiple selections allowed
set listOfButtons to every button
repeat with thisButton in listOfButtons
tell thisButton
set FilePath to file path of goto anchor behaviors
set ASTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters -- Store settings
set ButtonPath to (item 1 of FilePath) as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":" -- Everything splits at this character
set PathBits to text items of ButtonPath -- Slice it…
repeat with i from 1 to count PathBits
considering case
if item i of PathBits is PathOrigID then
set item i of PathBits to PathNewID
end if
end considering
end repeat
set TempPath to items 1 thru i of PathBits as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "_" -- Now everything splits at this character
set DocBits to text items of TempPath
repeat with j from 1 to count DocBits
considering case
if item j of DocBits is DocOrigID then
set item j of DocBits to DocNewID
end if
end considering
end repeat
set NewPath to items 1 thru j of DocBits as string
set file path of goto anchor behaviors of thisButton to NewPath
end tell
end repeat
end tell
end tell
The problem is that he doesn't change the items... what I am doing wrong?
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Welll, you're both right. The MoveToChar makes it unnecessary (if a little
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-----Original Message-----
From: Campbell, Dave [mailto:DCampbellpurolator.com]
Sent: Friday, 14 January 2000 0:58
To: 'Matthew Middleton'
Cc: kamranaminyahoo.com
Subject: RE: (forte-users) search and replace within a TextData
If you do not use the MoveNext method to skip beyond the "found" character,
a subsequent invocation of MoveToChar will find the same character, located
at exactly the same offset.
If there is no match, MoveToChar returns FALSE and the current offset does
not change.
----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Middleton <mathew.middletonlawpoint.com.au>
To:kamranaminyahoo.com
Unless I'm missing something here...you needn't go through every
character...use MoveToChar()...as per Help...
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email the word: 'Unsubscribe' to: forte-users-requestlists.sageit.comWhy not this:
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Subject: RE: (forte-users) search and replace within a TextData
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To: kamranaminyahoo.com
Subject: (forte-users) search and replace within a
TextData
Hello all,
I need to search within a textdata object, replacing all
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space
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of how I would do
this?
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Troy
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Original content is amended to be "The Word $Italic$ needs to be adjusted", so that a dollar sign encapsulates the word to be made Italic.
Then I am able to data merge the csv file and somehow do a find/replace of words/sentences which are encapsulated by the dollar sign. Thus, doing a find/replace of all words/sentences which satisfy this condition and then apply italics to all words between the dollar signs.
- My other issue is I am using the '|' character in my text to determine the paragraph seperators. I then do a find/replace after importing the text to replace all instances of '|' to the paragraph seperator (a kind of $ symbol, a representative character from the pop-up menu to the right of the Change To box). This works fine, but I'd like to make the paragraph seperator to be a BOLD format so that it can distinguish better the seperating sections of text.
But this is different from my 'italics' issue above since I am trying to apply a BOLD format to the 'Change to' character, rather than something which exists in my original csv.
Hope I make sense but I'd be happy to provide screenshots etc (when I get home )
Best Rgds
Ltwo solutions.
for the italic solution, i'd say the OP answered his own question with one exception - don't use dollar symbols, instead use = or another character which isn't reserved by GREP.
the solution i would use for italics would be a GREP search once the merge is complete. have a look at the picture to see what i've done.
the second solution: GREP styles.
this assumes that the text will have a paragraph style assigned to it. make a character style called BOLD and within that style, the only thing to change is within basic character formats, make the font style bold. could even make the character another colour such as cyan so it is more easily idenfiable.
next, go to the paragraph style options, go to GREP styles and match the following screengrab
the advantage with a GREP style is that once the pipe symbol (|) is replaced, its bold GREP style character formatting is lost; and it means less post processing and no need for a second search of the text - it's all live. -
I'm trying to get DW 8 to allow me to remove some of the
"found" items before using the replace function to avoid having to
open each file individually - but when I delete entries from the
"found" list, on r-click I'm given 3 options:
- Open File
- Find & Replace
- Clear Results
The Find & Replace option takes me back to the original
Find & Replace screen. With DW4 you have the option of deleting
some of the "found" entries before pressing the "replace" button.
Has DW really taken a backward step?I neevr used DW4, so I'm not certain how that worked. And it
doesn't look like you can delete entries from the Search panel.
You might use other techniques to limit your changes. Any
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of the Find In drop-down. Or, you could use the Replace button in
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