Script to apply cell style after search for paragraph

Hello,
can somebody help my do a script to search for all occurences of a paragraph format in tables and then apply a cell style to the enclosing cell for a document.
Thanks in advance.
Peter
BTW Mac InDesign CS 6

Hi,
use this:
var mDoc = app.activeDocument,
pST = mDoc.paragraphStyles.item("paraStyleName"),
cST = mDoc.cellStyles.item("cellStyleName"),
mFound, mParent, count;
app.findTextPreferences = null;
app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = pST;
mFound = mDoc.findText();
count = mFound.length;
while (count--) {
     mParent = mFound[count].parent;
     if (mParent.constructor.name == "Cell")
          mParent.appliedCellStyle = cST;
app.findTextPreferences = null;
edit paraStyleName and cellStyleName
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