[AS] Find a string of words in text

Question

Hello - hopefully someone can help as I'm now stuck on this. I want to be able to find a specific string of words within a text frame, though I want to be able to do this without using the Find Text Preferences approach.
I can get it to work if i am just finding one word, but if there is more than one word it doesn't work.
For example this works (given a text frame with text in that contains the word Example):
tell application "Adobe Indesign CS5"
tell active document
set mybox to selected
  tell mybox
   set myfind to object reference of every word whose contents = "Example"
  end tell
end tell
end tell
However the same does not work (searching for "The Example", which is two words)
tell application "Adobe Indesign CS5"
tell active document
set mybox to selected
  tell mybox
   set myfind to object reference of every word whose contents = "The Example"
  end tell
end tell
end tell
What i can't figure out is the correct phrasing for finding a string of words, i guess i should not be looking for the object reference of WORD, but nothing else i've tried seems to work. Many thanks for any help

Answer 1

I think what John has said is correct… I only had a quick look in the dictionary terms. Without find/change the closest you may get is line or paragraph after that you would need to manipulate the line/para contents further… Word by definition I would think can't contain space but is encapsulated in space bar first/last…
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
tell active document
tell story 1
set myfind to object reference of every word whose contents = "Example"
end tell
show text first item of myfind
end tell
end tell
This would show the line you can then break down further…
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
tell active document
tell story 1
set myfind to object reference of every line whose contents contains "For Example"
end tell
show text first item of myfind
end tell
end tell