[CS5.5] [JS] delete the character before the result of the search

Hello

I have a small question.

I would like to remove all spaces before any text containing the tag with a specific character style.

Example: "call: [SPACE] [BEGIN TANK STYLE FRUIT] 5 parts [END TANK STYLE FRUIT]".

I would like to remove the space...

A piece of my code:

app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = "FRUIT".

myResultsList = app.activeDocument.findText ();

for (var k = myResultsList.length - 1; k >-1; k = k - 1) {}

How can I remove the space before the result?

}

Aynone have an idea?

Thank you

John

Hi J & J,

I have a little problem with the two scripts here.

Jarek is obviously going to be very fast, but it assumes there is no local formatting on the words of style FRUIT, i.e. No bold / italic / color / highlight replacements applied to these texts. If this is the case then his script (perhaps with a more original original combination) them IS way to go. If it's not!

John, I don't understand how the script you found could possibly work.

There are 2 major bugs with it.

var myCharacters = myResultsList [k] .parentTextFrames [0] .characters;

myCharacters.itemByRange(myLocation-1,1).remove ();

should be replaced by

var myCharacters is myResultsList [k].parentStory.characters;.

myCharacters.itemByRange (myLocation-1, myLocation) .remove ();

To the help of parentTextFrames is not a good idea because it will fail on threaded textframe, give it index the character of possiosion since the beginning of the story and not the beginning of the textframe.

having itemByRange(myLocation-1,1).remove () will withdraw find it until the second character in the story. I understand that you just want to remove the space before the style!

This brings to a 3rd problem in your script that removes the (fixed once upwards) any character preceding the style regardless of whether or not it is a space.

In any case my way would be with one of these 2 functions according to the conditions weather there is always a space before the style of fruits or not.

It will only remove spaces (no returns or other characters) that precede the style.

The first function 'removeCharacterBeforeStyle' is the equivalent of your corrected script but better (at least in my humble opinion)

// http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1213463?tstart=0word.
// Removes  letter / spaces before a character style
app.doScript("removeAllSpacesBeforeStyle()", ScriptLanguage.javascript, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT);
//app.doScript("removeCharacterBeforeStyle()", ScriptLanguage.javascript, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT);

function removeCharacterBeforeStyle() {
    // to delete ANY character that precedes the FRUIT style. short and sweet :-)
    app.findTextPreferences = null;
    app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = "FRUIT";
    var  myFinds =  app.documents[0].findText(),
           l = myFinds.length, pos;
    while (l--)   myFinds[l].parentStory.characters.itemByRange (pos = myFinds[l].insertionPoints[0].index-1, pos++).remove();
};

function removeAllSpacesBeforeStyle() {
    // This will delete spaces (including hairspaces), tabs etc. but not returns that precedes the FRUIT style
    // see http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2011/09/what-exactly-is-a-word for hairspace and other potential issues
    // not so short and not so sweet :-(
    // but does the job without messing up most of the local overrides of the character style |:-)
    var doc = app.documents[0];
    app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null;
    app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "^|"; // this is one way of dealing with hairline spaces (warning their format will get messed up)
    app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = "^4^4^4^4^3";
    doc.changeText();
    app.findTextPreferences = null;
    app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = "FRUIT";
    var  myFinds = doc.findText(),
           l = myFinds.length,
           ps, find_CharacterInStoryIndex, find_WordInStoryIndex, StartOfGap, EndOfGap;
    app.findTextPreferences = app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "((?![\\r\\n])\\s)+"; // find spaces that are not returns about the same as "[~m~>~f~S~s~<~/~.~3~4~%\\x{20}~|\\t]+" I have not compaired the speeds
    while (l--)  {
        ps = myFinds[l].parentStory;
        find_CharacterInStoryIndex = myFinds[l].insertionPoints[0].index-1;
        if ((find_WordInStoryIndex = ps.words.itemByRange(ps.words[0], myFinds[l].words[0]).words.length-2) <0) continue;
        // the 'if' checks that the find is not the first word in the story if it was the ALL the spaces in the whole story would be removed
        StartOfGap = ps.words[find_WordInStoryIndex].insertionPoints[-1].index;
        EndOfGap = ps.words[find_WordInStoryIndex+1].index-1;
        // if the FRUIT style starts at the beginning  of a word remove spaces before that word
        if (find_CharacterInStoryIndex == EndOfGap)  ps.characters.itemByRange(StartOfGap,EndOfGap).changeGrep();
    }
    app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "^4^4^4^4^3"; // put the hairspaces back
    app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = "^|";
    doc.changeText();
    app.findTextPreferences  = app.changeTextPreferences = app.findGrepPreferences = null;
}

Concerning

Trevor

P.s. If you do not have hairspaces (and you probably haven't) her you could for aesthetic reasons to remove at least 6 lines of code.

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