Re: Help with find text command
Re: Help with find text command
- Subject: Re: Help with find text command
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 23:22:04 +0100
William Wallace wrote:
The overview of what I'm doing is:
Search through all the text flows in a bunch of InDesign layouts and
wherever I find a 10 digit ISBN, look it up in a spreadsheet and
find the
current price, convert the 10 digit ISBN to a 13 digit ISBN and add
both the
new price and the 13 digit ISBN to the text flow immediately after the
original ISBN.
-- find 10-character substrings that may be an ISBN
set possMatches to find text "\\<[[:digit:]][[:digit:]-]{8}[[:digit:]
X]\\>" in theText with regexp and all occurrences
-- note: since source text is being modified, start at end and work back
repeat with possMatch in (get reverse of possMatches)
set isISBN to true
try
-- confirm it's an ISBN
find text "^[[:digit:]]{1,5}-[[:digit:]]{1,7}-[[:digit:]]
{1,7}-[[:digit:]X]$" in matchResult of possMatch with regexp
on error number 1 -- no match
set isISBN to false
end try
if isISBN then
set startPosition to matchPos of possMatch
set endPosition to startPosition + (matchLen of possMatch)
-- replace original text here
end if
end repeat
HTH
has
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