[CS4 JS] Find a paragraph style and get text contents

Hello,
I would like to get to contents of text that is applied with a specific paragraph style, so that I can copy it to another text frame
app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null;
app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = "headline";
// and then get the value/contents of that applied paragraph style
Sjoerd

Something like this:
str = "";
found = app.activeDocument.findText();
for (i = 0; i < found.length; i++)
str += found[i].contents;
"str" now contains aal text styled with that paragraph, which you can now save in a text file.
Peter

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quote:
In DWMX, you could select text in the design view and in the
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http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=189&threadid=714513&arc tab=arc
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>
quote:
I think what the O/P is wanting is a quick and easy method to
remove
> all of
> those presentational tags.
>
> Thanks Gary ? spot on! I'll use the term 'presentational
markup' rather
> than
> 'HTML styles' from now on. (Excuse my ignorance, but
what's an 'OP'?
> Should I
> like being called such a thing? :)
>
>
quote:
Murray: ? but you just cannot create predefined "HTML STYLES"
any
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>
> Agreed! Okay, we've established that no one's lamenting
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> styles' in the sense of a style sheet that stores HTML
presentational
> markup.
>
>
quote:
And if "HTML STYLES" were not used in the first place, then
even having
> that feature available now wouldn't help OP, if your
interpretation is
> correct.
>
> Perhaps you are misinterpreting what those commands did.
'Clear Paragraph
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style' with no
> presentational markup ? making it as far as I know, the
quickest, easiest
> way
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> whether
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>
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quote:
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> The
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brown fox
jumps over the
 color="#FF0000">lazy
dog
>
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use nothing but
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