[CS6][JS][Win]Append page number of citation

Question

Hi guys,
I hope you can help me with this one, I have a Bibliography page structured like this:
DARWIN Charles Erasmus 7529 (1759–1799) Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
   consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore
   et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud
   exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo.
Then I need to search for the body of the book for pages where Darwin were cited then append it to the end of the paragraph which will look like this:
DARWIN Charles Erasmus 7529 (1759–1799) Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
   consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore
   et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud
   exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo. [23 35 102 204]
Please take note that the citation on the body of the book may come in different format like, CE Darwin, C.E. Darwin, or Darwin, CE.
I would really appreciate your help.
-CharlesD

Answer 1

Charles, I had some time during lunch. Find attached a new version. The GREP searches now for pairs. The GREP string can be written certainly shorter, but in this case it is more readable.
So the GREP will find in the first loop C.E. Darwin, C. E. Darwin, CE Darwin or Darwin, C.E. , Darwin, C. E. and Darwin CE and save the corresponding page. Then it will search for 'DARWIN Charles Erasmus' with a applied paragraph style 'myPStyle' and will insert the page names at the end of the paragraph. If the pargraph had alreday something in brackets, this content will be deleted. So you can run the script multiple times.
In the second loop it will find RL Darwin > DARWIN Roqueza Lopena and so on. You can add addtional names or change the GREP expression which determines what is to be found.
Because I am only an advanced beginner in Javascript this could maybe be done easier, but this is my way for today .
main ();
function main() {
    var curDoc = app.activeDocument;
    var allPages = curDoc.pages;
    // [ GREP-Querie, special paragraph ]
    var searchList = [ 
        [ "(?i)((C\\. ?E\\.|CE) Darwin)|(Darwin, (C\\. ?E\\.|CE))", "DARWIN Charles Erasmus" ],
        [ "(?i)((R\\. ?L\\.|RL) Darwin)|(Darwin, (R\\. ?L\\.|RL))", "DARWIN Roqueza Lopena" ],
        [ "(?i)((C\\. ?R\\.|CR) Darwin)|(Darwin, (C\\. ?R\\.|CR))", "DARWIN Charles Robert" ],
    // loop through the searchList
    for ( var s = 0; s < searchList.length; s++ ) { 
        app.findGrepPreferences = null;  
        app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = searchList[s][0];
        var pNumbers = new Array(); 
        // loop through all pages
        for ( var p = 0; p < allPages.length; p++ ) {     
            var curPage = allPages[p];
            var tfs = curPage.textFrames;
            // loop through all textframes on the current page
            for ( var t = 0; t < tfs.length; t++ ) {     
                var tf = tfs[t];
                if ( tf.contents != "" )  {
                    var res = tf.findGrep();
                    if ( res.length > 0 ) {
                        pNumbers.push( curPage.name );
                        break;
                    } // if
                } // if
            } // tfs
        } // allPages
        var pageString = pNumbers.join( " " );
        alert ( searchList[s][1] + ": " + pageString );
        app.findGrepPreferences = null;
        app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat= searchList[s][1];
        app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = curDoc.paragraphStyles.itemByName( "myPStyle" );       
        var result = curDoc.findGrep();
        var para = result[0].paragraphs[0];
        // if the paragraph has already content in '[…]' this content will be deleted
        if ( para.characters[-2].contents == "]" ) {
            app.findGrepPreferences = null;
            app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = " +\\[[^\\]]+\\]";
            app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "";
            para.changeGrep();       
        para.insertionPoints[-2].contents = " [" + pageString + "]";
    } // searchList
} // main