Spliting up stacked text with JavaScript

Question

I am trying to get any stacked text in my illustrator file that is a single frames  such as with carriage returns such as:
1
2
3
4
5
to be individual text frames.
Is there a split command I can use?
Can anybody point me in the right direction?
Im thinking it would start by finding all the textframes that have carriage returns
is the carriage return identified as "\n"
Any help would be appreciated,
Duane

Answer 1

I got this awesome code from John Wundes. It would crash illustrator if you had more than one textframe selected. With my modifications it still will not do more than one textFrame with carriage returns.
It runs through the first time looking for textFrames with carriage returns  in my file and when it finds one it goes into the if statement(which is all of John Wundes code.)
But when it finishes with the first textFrame with carriage returns it keeps the first line of text selected and quits when moving on to the second textFrame with carriage returns. Does anyone know why it quits
//Divide TextFrame v.2.1 -- CS,CS2,CS3,CS4,CS5
//>=--------------------------------------
// Divides a multiline text field into separate textFrame objects.
// Basically, each line in the selected text object
// becomes it's own textFrame. Vertical Spacing of each new line is based on leading.
// This is the opposite of my "Join TextFrames" scripts which
// takes multiple lines and stitchs them back together into the same object.
// New in 2.1 now right and center justification is kept.
//>=--------------------------------------
// JS code (c) copyright: John Wundes ( [email protected] ) www.wundes.com
//copyright full text here:  http://www.wundes.com/js4ai/copyright.txt
    added code part 1 Start
var doc = app.activeDocument.activeLayer;
var myTextFrames = doc.textFrames;
for (i = 0; i < myTextFrames.length; i++) {
                                                                                              alert("starting textFrmes length" + "the amout text frames = " + i);
  myContent  = myTextFrames[i].contents.toString();
  if (myContent.indexOf("\r") !== -1) {
                                                                                             alert("starting selected text with carriage returns");       
      myTextFrames[i].selected = true;
    added code part 1 End
var item =  activeDocument.selection[0];
var selWidth = item.width;
if(item.contents.indexOf("\n") != -1){
    //alert("This IS already a single line object!");
}else{
    //get object position
    //getObject justification
    var justification = item.story.textRange.justification;
    //make array
    var lineArr = fieldToArray(item);
    //alert(lineArr);
    tfTop = activeDocument.selection[0].top;
    tfLeft = activeDocument.selection[0].left;
    activeDocument.selection[0].contents = lineArr[0];
    //for each array item, create a new text line
    var tr = activeDocument.selection[0].story.textRange;
    var vSpacing = tr.leading;
    for(j=1 ; j<lineArr.length ; j++){
        bob = activeDocument.selection[0].duplicate(activeDocument, ElementPlacement.PLACEATBEGINNING);
        bob.contents = lineArr[j];
        bob.top = tfTop - (vSpacing*j);
        if(justification == Justification.CENTER)
             bob.left = (tfLeft + (selWidth/2)) - (bob.width/2);   
    else
            if(justification == Justification.RIGHT)
            bob.left = (tfLeft + selWidth) - bob.width;   
    else
           bob.left = tfLeft;
        bob.selected = false;       
    added code part 2 Start
else {
  //alert("The contents of frame "+ i + " is = "+ myContent); 
    added code part 2 End
function fieldToArray(myField) {
    if (myField.typename == "TextFrame") {
        retChars = new Array("\x03","\f","\r","\n");
        var ct = 0;
        var tmpTxt = myField.contents.toString();
        for (all in retChars )
        tmpArr = tmpTxt.split(retChars[all]);
        ct+= tmpArr.length;
        //--and just for kicks...
        ct+=1;
        //alert(ct);
        while (ct>0) {
            //throw something lucicrious as a content divider...
            tmpTxt = tmpTxt.replace(/[\x03]|[\f]|[\r\n]|[\r]|[\n]/,"_:X:_");
            ct--;
        return tmpTxt.split("_:X:_");