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• • May 14, 2020 at 12:41 pm #1250586
    Brett Stone

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    I’m wanting to capture the current document name in two variables, then change the extension in one.
    What I’ve done thus far (snipped below) doesn’t succeed at changing the second variable.
    Commenting in the script below tells what I’m trying to do.
    Do you more experienced scripters see where I’m going astray?

    (one area I’m looking at in line 7, but haven’t been able to resolve, is should the replace include /indd$ instead of indd, and should the ps be in quotes?)

    // set both variables to active document name
    var myDocName1 = document.name;
    var myDocName2 = document.name;
    // confirm the two variables in a simple alert
    alert(“Test result 1 ” + myDocName1 + ” and ” + myDocName2);
    // change the variable to replace indd with ps. This will be used in a later
    // printFile = “/Seps to PDF/” + myDocName2;
    myDocName2.replace(‘indd’, ‘ps’);
    alert(“Test result 2 ” + myDocName1 + ” and ” + myDocName2);
    // current result is myDocName2 remains unchanged

  • May 15, 2020 at 5:59 pm #1250878
    Max Pinton

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    You want the results of the replace (it doesn’t replace in-place), so try:

    myDocName2 = myDocName1.replace(‘indd’, ‘ps’);

  • May 19, 2020 at 2:52 pm #1251558
    Brett Stone

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    Max, thank you!
    It was that easy?? Gee, I think I had tried that, but maybe it was twenty things /like/ that.
    –Brett

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