Find and move text within the existing framework of anchored

I have a great story that spans several pages text. It contains a number of paragraphs that have the following content:

[empty anchor for an existing character, but the anchor text frame] [important book that contains NO tab] [TAB] [intermediate text containing NO tab] [TAB] [end text containing NO tab] [empty anchor for an another existing character, but the block of anchor text]

I need a script (Javascript, preferably) that:

1. find a paragraph that starts with a character of anchor;

2. find and cut the main text between the character of the anchor and the first TAB after

3. Paste the main text in text anchored at the beginning of the paragraph;

4. in the same paragraph, find the final text between the second (and last) TAB and the character of the second (and last) anchor at the end of the paragraph;

5. glue the final text under text anchored at the end of the paragraph;

6. repeat 1. -5. for the paragraph all in the same article that starts with a character of the anchor.


I'm a JS programmer advanced, but new scripts CreativeSuite. I just understood how to search for some text, and I know that the 'parent' of an anchored object is a 'character' - but now to I access the contents of an object anchored to its parent character?


Even better:

function movetoanchored(find) {
  var myText = find.characters.itemByRange(1, -1).texts[0];
  var myFrame = find.characters[0].textFrames[0];
  myText.move(LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING, myFrame);
};

function main() {
  var myStory = app.selection[0].parentStory;
  app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
  app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "^~a\\S+";
  var myFinds = myStory.findGrep(true);
  for (i = 0; i < myFinds.length; i++) movetoanchored(myFinds[i]);
  Window.alert(myFinds.length + " moves performed");
};

app.doScript(main, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "MoveToAnchored");

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