Alert ( phone number)

Question

hi
To find a telephone number in a text, I use the following:
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '"32\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d";
var number= myDoc.findGrep(true);
alert(number);
but if I want to preview this with the alert function, there's no result (is defined as an object instead of text).
help

Answer 1

Which reminds me: alert doesn't scroll, so if you have lots of numbers they roll off the screen and you won't be able to see them. Here is an example from "ScriptUI for Dummies", which is a more useful version of alert: it shows text in a scrollable window. An additional advantage is that you can copy text out of the alert.
So the whole script would be this:
if (number.length > 0)
   array = [];
   for (i = 0; i < number.length; i++)
      array.push (number[i].contents);
   alert_scroll ("Phone numbers", array);
else
   alert ("No numbers found.");
function alert_scroll (title, input)   // string, string
    if (input instanceof Array)
        input = input.join ("\r");
    var w = new Window ("dialog", title);
    var list = w.add ("edittext", undefined, input, {multiline: true, scrolling: true});
    //the list should not be bigger than the maximum possible height of the window
    list.maximumSize.height = w.maximumSize.height - 100;
    list.minimumSize.width = 150;
    w.add ("button", undefined, "Close", {name: "ok"});
    w.show ();
Peter