Can findText find two different objects at once?

Question

I have written a script that finds all italicized words, then compares them to a character style that italicizes characters. If there are any italicized words that do not use the character style, the user is alerted.
Of course, not all fonts use a fontStyle that equals "Italic." Some use a fontStyle called "Oblique."
I was trying to figure out how the findText function could find two fontStyles at the same time. My solution was to realize that each find is an array. So I made two finds and the concatenated the arrays. The resultant array (here called myFoundItems) elements can be searched through to find any that do not have the correct character style applied.
My question is if the findText function can find more than two different objects at once or are we stuck with concatenating arrays?
Below is part of the script:
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
initFindReplace(); [This function zeros out anything left in the find/change preferences]
app.findTextPreferences.fontStyle = "Italic";
var myFoundItems1 = myDoc.findText();
initFindReplace();
app.findTextPreferences.fontStyle = "Oblique";
var myFoundItems2 = myDoc.findText();
initFindReplace();
var myFoundItems = myFoundItems1.concat(myFoundItems2);
Thanks,
Tom

Answer 1

Tom,
The reason why you end up with an array of arrays is this: you define an array allMyFoundItems, then you iteratively collect other arrays using findText and insert ("push") these arrays into allMyFoundItems. Instead, you should use concatenate:
var allMyFoundItems = new Array;
for (. . .
   var myFoundItems = myDoc.findText();
   allMyFoundItems = allMyFoundItems.concat (myFoundItems)
If you'll allow me a further comment, you could formulate your test to check whether a fontstyle name contains oblique or italic in one line:
>if (arrFontStyles[k].search (/(italic|oblique)/i) > -1)
And as the script searches but doesn't change anything, there's no need to set the ChangeTextPreferences. Your script could then be stated as follows:
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var arrFontStyles = myDoc.fonts.everyItem().fontStyleName;
aa = findFontStyle (arrFontStyles);
function findFontStyle (arrFontStyles)
   var allMyFoundItems = new Array;
   var myFoundItems2 = new Array;
   app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;
   for(var k = 0; k < arrFontStyles.length; k++)
      if (arrFontStyles[k].search (/(italic|oblique)/i) > -1)
         app.findTextPreferences.fontStyle = arrFontStyles[k];
         var myFoundItems = myDoc.findText();
         allMyFoundItems = allMyFoundItems.concat (myFoundItems);
         }//end if
      }//end for k
   return allMyFoundItems;
   }//end findFontStyle function
As to formatting scripts in the forum, you can do this by wrapping your code in <pre> and </pre>. Also replace < with &lt; (< causes all lines of code to be displayed on one line). You should also replace curly quotes with straight codes, and tabs with (non-breaking) spaces. I use the following script for that:
tf = app.documents.add().textFrames.add ({geometricBounds: [0,0,'700pt','500pt']})
tf.insertionPoints[0].select();
app.activeDocument.textPreferences.typographersQuotes = false;
app.paste();
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
sara (tf, '&', '&amp;');
sara (tf, '<', '&lt;');
sara (tf, '\\t', '   ');
sara (tf, "'", "'");
sara (tf, '"', '"');
tf.parentStory.insertionPoints[0].contents = '<pre>';
tf.parentStory.insertionPoints[-1].contents = '</pre>';
function sara (tf, f, r)
   app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = f;
   app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = r;
   tf.parentStory.changeGrep ()
Copy the text of the script you want to prepare for posting, then run this above script. It creates a new InDesign document, pastes your script into it, and makes all the necessary changes. Then copy that and paste it into the forum.
Peter