Google App Script - Search for special charaters in Text.findText()

[Edward Ulle]

I'm trying to figure out how to find certain characters in a Google Doc.  For example how to search for a blank space Text.findText(" ") throws an exception.  Text.findText("\s") doesn't find anything.  And now Text.findText("^") gives a weird exception "We're sorry, a server error occurred. Please wait a bit and try again.".  I've also tried Text.findText("\^") but get the same weird exception.  Normally you can just put a text string like Text.findText("find this") and it works.  How to properly put regex expressions in findText()?

[Marcos Gomes]

Try this

Exemple find ##000 to ##999

 var body = doc.getBody();

  var txt = body.getText();

  var rx = /##([000-999]+)/g;     //use regex

  var find = txt.match(rx);

Em sex, 17 de mai de 2019 às 09:45, Edward Ulle <thew...@gmail.com> escreveu:

I'm trying to figure out how to find certain characters in a Google Doc.  For example how to search for a blank space Text.findText(" ") throws an exception.  Text.findText("\s") doesn't find anything.  And now Text.findText("^") gives a weird exception "We're sorry, a server error occurred. Please wait a bit and try again.".  I've also tried Text.findText("\^") but get the same weird exception.  Normally you can just put a text string like Text.findText("find this") and it works.  How to properly put regex expressions in findText()?

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[Edward Ulle]

body.getText() returns a string.  I want to be able to search a Document Text object.

[Tanaike]

How about this sample script? In order to search " " and "^", "\\s" and "\\^" are used.

Sample script:

var searchValue = "\\s|\\^";

var doc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();

var body = doc.getBody();

var s = body.findText(searchValue);

while (s) {

  var text = s.getElement().asText();

  Logger.log(text.getText())

  var s = body.findText(searchValue, s);

}

Note:

• If you want to only a space and only ^, please use "\\s", "\\^", respectively.

[Edward Ulle]

Tanaike, Text.findText("\\s") works but Text.findText("\\^") doesn't.

[Tanaike]

Thank you for replying. Unfortunately, from "Text.findText("\\^") doesn't.", I couldn't understand about the detail situation. I apologize for my poor English skill. In my environment, I could confirm that "\\s" and "\\^" work. I cannot replicate your situation. I apologize for this situation. So can you provide the detail information about the script, flow and sample Document for replicating your situation? By this, I would like to confirm it.

[Edward Ulle]

Tanaike, found my mistake.  I hadn't properly checked for if the character didn't exist.  Thanks now it works.

[Tanaike]

Thank you for replying. I'm glad your issue was resolved.