Find start text index from paragraph style?

hi,
In my project,i have paragraph style name,i need to find out that paragraph start and end index positon ?
pls,anyone help me?
thanks,
screen410099

Hi Saud,
Try the below script.
var activeDoc = app.activeDocument;
    app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
    app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = "XXXX";//Give your paragraph Style name here
var foundRefList = activeDoc.findGrep();
    app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
    app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
var myCount =0;
var foundListLength = foundRefList.length;
for (var j = 0; j<foundListLength; j++){
    var myParas = foundRefList[j].paragraphs;
    var myParaLength = myParas.length;
    for (var i = 0; i<myParaLength; i++){
        var myText = myParas[i].texts[0];
        app.select(myText);
        var myId = j+"_"+(i+1);
        var myHyperlinkCitDestination = activeDoc.hyperlinkTextDestinations.add(myText, {name: myId});
        myCount++;
    app.select(NothingEnum.nothing);
    alert("Process Completed\n"+myCount+" destinations added");
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