How do I find a word in all my document, return false if it's not in there.

Question

Hi,
I struggle with something that should be easy, and didn't find any answer on this forum.
I have a list of word that I want to search in a 300 pages catalogue in InDesign. I'd like to know how can i:
1) Look for the word
2) Return true if it's in the document
3) Return false if it's not
FYI, the words i'm searching are product code, so if they're not in the catalogue, the product isn't in the catalogue.
Thanks a lot,
Olivier

Answer 1

Hi Oliver,
Use this,
var doc = app.documents;
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "Text";
var foundtext = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().findText();
for (var i=0;i<foundtext.length;i++){
        if (foundtext[i].length != 0){
            alert("True");
        else{
            alert("False")
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;