I licked that one. The VB.Net syntax for extracting a series of strings from the array generated by the GREP search:

Dim found = myDoc.FindGrep()
If found.Count > 0 Then
Dim skulist As String = ""
Dim i As Integer = 1
For i = 1 To found.Count
skulist = found.Item(i).Contents.ToString
Dim skufile
skufile = fso.OpenTextFile("M:\Catops\SKUlist.txt", 8, True)
skufile.WriteLine(skulist)
skufile.Close()
Next

And NOW, of course, I'm wondering if there isn't some way to get code to render up the document's current page number as a string (or integer, not fussy) so I know what page the found SKU was on...


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From: InDesign Talk [mailto:indesign@lists.lassosoft.com] On Behalf Of Rick Gordon
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 11:42 AM
To: InDesign Talk
Subject: [SPAM-BAYESIAN] - Re: Scripting FindGrep

I agree. My understanding is that there is very little overhead in simply assigning variables, and the resulting scripts can be so much more readable.

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On 12/19/09 at 1:33 PM +0100, Roy McCoy wrote in a message entitled
"Re: Scripting FindGrep":

>yeah, thanks. I guess I like it
>better with the superfluous variable, though. :-}
>
>Rick Gordon wrote:
>
>>tell (make document)
>> make text frame with properties {contents:s, ¬
>> geometric bounds:{"5mm", "5mm", "100mm", "100mm"}} end tell
>
>>Or yet more arcane:
>>
>>tell (make document) to make text frame with properties ¬ {contents:s,
>>geometric bounds:{"5mm", "5mm", "100mm", "100mm"}}
>
>tell (make document) [to] [end tell]
>
>I took too long to adapt the script because I kept trying to
>concatenate with + rather than & and couldn't figure out why I kept
>getting alerts about not being able to make something into type number. Dumb dumb dumb.

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