Quark Text Search & Replace

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#1

Hi All

I am developing a programe search & Replace text in a quark document. Please check my code it is working fine. only I want some enhancement in it. I want search & reaplcae should be done for CASE SENSITIVE & WHOLE WORD.


tell application "QuarkXPress"
	activate
	tell document 1
		set TheStories to count of every story
		repeat with i from 1 to TheStories
			set mysearch to (a reference to (text of story i whose contents of it = "Rajeev"))
			set contents of mysearch to "Kumar"
		end repeat
	end tell
end tell

At present it replace fine but if there is a string “Rajeeveer” then it get replaced by “Kumareer”, which I don’t want.

Thanks
Rajeev Kumar

#2

Rajeev:

The easiest solution, if all you want to do is look for a specific whole word is to add a space to the end of your search term:

"rajeev " or (“rajeev” & space) would then target only those words that end with “rajeev”.

#3

I experimented a bit and this was the best I could come up with:

tell application "QuarkXPress"
	activate
	tell document 1
		set TheText to count of every text box
		repeat with i from 1 to TheText
			tell story 1 of text box i
				set (every text where it is "Rajeev ") to "Kumar "
				set (every text where it is "Rajeev.") to "Kumar."
                            --copy addition conditions here
			end tell
		end repeat
	end tell
end tell

This will not change “Rajeeveer”. You can copy the second condition:
set (every text where it is “Rajeev.”) to “Kumar.”
as many more times as you need to account for additional punctuation:
set (every text where it is “Rajeev?”) to “Kumar?”
set (every text where it is “Rajeev!”) to “Kumar!”
etc…

I didn’t know how complete you need this to be.

Anyway, I hope this helps.