Script that will show the character count of all carriage resturns

I have found a bug when exporting an indd to idml. If a a carriage return falls in a character count that is a multiple of 8000 + 1 it is converted to a paragraph separator (u2029). I am in the process of mass exporting around 3000 files to idml for a project. I am trying to come up with a way with a script to check the files to see if carriage returns exist in these locations. I am fairly new to scripting and don't know how this would be done. I know it is possible to get character counts but is it possible to check if a character exists in a certain character count from the beginning of a story? Any help on this would be appreciated.
Also has anyone else ran into this with exporting to idml? I have submitted a bug report. This is can be recreated across multiple computers, OS's and versions of InDesign.

@Blujely – about your initial question about showing a specific character at an n-th position in a story, you could use a simple GREP search in InDesign and restrict that search to a specific story (e.g. the story of a selected piece of text):
Search for the n-th position with the formular in dummy-syntax:
Positive look behind of any character in the exact length n-1 + character
E.g. if you want to look for a "carriage return", defined in GREP as \n at every 10th position, search for:
(?<=.{9})\n
In your case that would be:
(?<=.{8000})\n
Uwe

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You also have functions that are never used and the body code doe snot look for users.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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