Find and Replace text and change font help needed.

I am completely new to Scripting and I'm sure this is quite simple but I do not know where to start.
I have a FM template that is populated with "raw" text from a database.
Within the text are several characters (+, @, *, $, # and %).
I need to replace these characters with symbols from a different font e.g.:
Each instance of:
"+" to be replaced with Wingdings 2 font - Lowercase t
"@" to be replaced with Wingdings 2 font - Lowercase u
"*" to be replaced with Wingdings font - Uppercase E etc.
I would like to automate the process and believe a script would enable me to do this.
I have tried looking on the forum, but can not find anything suitable to help me (or I'm looking in the wrong place).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Kev

not really
important is the Illustrator Text Object-model, which is not very easy to understand.
And the Core JS String and regExp Objekts.
Have a look at this:
http://www.ogebab.de/home/skripte/text/replace
The dialog is poor (because of compatibility) and it works simply on TextFrames.contents, i don't know if this is good i all cases.
But i use it not very often so i don't want to rewrite it.
Maybe it is a starting-point for you.
But maybe it is more then you need.
try this:
//select a text
var text = app.activeDocument.selection[0];
var string = text.contents;
string = string.replace(/ /g," ");
text.contents= string;
/ /g is a regular expression
.replace() is a method of the String Object
both explained at
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference

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