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• • November 20, 2012 at 8:07 am #63582
    artstar

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    I am doing multiple find/replace with the FindChangeByList script.

    How can I search “Any character that is not a word character” or at least the “quotes”

    I am doing a lot of search replace with the FindChangeByList script, but a word with “quotes” doesn't work, for example I want to put “design” of the word indesign between qoutes:
    text {findWhat:”indesignsecrects”} {changeTo:”in”design”secrets”}

    Probably because it gets confused with the other quotes.

  • November 21, 2012 at 7:10 am #63599
    Colin Flashman

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    try this:

    text {findWhat:”indesign”} {changeTo:”in^{design^}”}

    there is a key script which makes using the findchangebylist.jsx invaluable, and it is called recordfindchange.jsx – simply make the search query in the find/change dialog box and then run the script, and hey presto, a text-file pops up with the find/change string ready to pop into the findchangelist.txt file.

    download it at https://creativepro.com/dow…..S5.jsx.zip

    that is how I generated the string which returned the correct answer when I tried to do this in indesign.

  • November 22, 2012 at 8:35 am #63607
    artstar

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    thanks so much, it works great!

    btw I tried the recordfindchange.jsx script and by a straight qoute it gives me:

    {changeTo:”in”design”secrets”}

    thanks again

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