Reversing selected text or paragraph

hi all,
i have a document that contains the lines reversed (for example, Hello All is written llA olleH), so how can i reverse a selected line and reverse the text inside the line (assuming i select each line before i run the script), and also how can i reverse the whole document without needing to select every single line at a time?
thanks in advance

Hi,
Hope you are new to scripting, so kindly use the below script.
With the help of vandy coding,
var myLines = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().lines.everyItem().getElements();
for(i=0; i<myLines.length; i++)
    if(myLines[i].contents.match(/^\r/) !=null)
        continue;
    app.select(myLines[i].characters.itemByRange(0, -2));
    alert("select line")
    myString = app.selection[0].contents;
    myString = myString.split("").reverse().join("");
    app.selection[0].contents = myString;
Regards
Siraj

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