[AS][CS3] Finding text with character style

Question

Please help to tell me how to find text with a specific character style and then delete the text.
I had no problem doing this with CS2 but its doing my head in now.
Thanks,
Andrew

Answer 1

Here you go. This assumes that your character style is at the top level of the panel. If you're using style groups, you'll need to write code to get at the style you want to use.
//DESCRIPTION: Delete text in named character style
(function() {
  if (app.documents.length > 0) {
    deleteStyledText(app.documents[0]);
  function deleteStyledText(aDoc) {
    var cStyle = aDoc.characterStyles.item("CharStyleName");
    setupFindText();
    app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = cStyle;
    aDoc.changeText();
  function setupFindText(find, change, wholeWd, caseSense, foots, hidLayers, lockedLayers, lockedStories, masters) {
    app.findTextPreferences = null;
    app.changeTextPreferences = null;
    try { app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = find } catch(e) {};
    try {app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = change } catch(e) {};
    app.findChangeTextOptions.properties = {
      caseSensitive:(caseSense == null ? false : caseSense),
      wholeWord:(wholeWd == null ? false : wholeWd),
      includeFootnotes:(foots == null ? false : foots),
      includeHiddenLayers:(hidLayers == null ? false : hidLayers),
      includeLockedLayersForFind:(lockedLayers == null ? false : lockedLayers),
      includeLockedStoriesForFind:(lockedStories == null ? false : lockedStories),
      includeMasterPages:(masters == null ? false : masters)
  } // end setupFindText
Dave