Find text based on its font "Bold"

Hi,
I want to find the content based on its font bold.
I dono the syntax to find conent based on font.
Please any one help me on this.

Hi,
Thanks for your respose. I used the below code as you said, but it shows the below error as in Image.
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findTextPreference.fontStyle = "Bold"
var boldCont = myDoc.findText();
alert(boldCont.length)
for(var cnt = 0 ; cnt < boldCont.length; cnt ++)
var selCont = boldCont[cnt]
selCont.select();
alert(selCont.contents+"\n"+app.selection[0].paragraphs[0].contents.length);
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Now that I've been recording data for about 6 months, I'm more interested in parsing through it to see what I'm spending in each month and in various categories. At the moment, I just run the files through grep and awk to get what I want. I'm contemplating writing a python program to let me filter and calculate totals and do whatever else comes to mind: importing credit card statements, generating graphs, etc. But at that point, I feel like I'm probably just re-inventing the wheel.
Does anybody want to share how they are handling a similar case?
I'm ok with changing my entry format, but I'm pretty attached to handling things as text files. I don't need anything more complex if it adds to the overhead of creating an entry.

Hey, I been doing something very similar!
Except it also will measure income, so I can know how much I have done/expend this month, week, etc.
I don't have it at hand atm, but I use : to separate the fields, and use slashes to escape it (like \:)
Yes, that is a DSV file.
I haven't dedicated time to work on it lately, but I was writing a perl script to do the calculations.
One idea I have is to create an additonal file for a list of expenses names, like this:
milk-z:Milk brand Z:milk
milk-y:Milk brand Y:milk
the first field is an unique code for the product, second field a description, and third field is a category.
That way I could see how much I have expend on milk, no matter the brand.
On the expenses file, an expense would be similar to this:
2012-12-20:expense:milk-z:5.0
The first field has the date, in the format YYYY-MM-DD; that order is important to be able to sort the file if is necessary
Second field has "expense"; it could be "income" if it was an income
Third field is the product code - if its something I don't buy regulary, I could be only a name (like "new led tv" or something), if is an income, the reason behind the income.
And fourth field is just the amount of money.
Oh, I think I'll dedicate some time to the project again

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