Seems like a good idea. I modified it a little to give me some idea of
what it was doing:

//script is supposed to find the SKUs and write them sequentially to a
new document
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; // set
options to in-/exclude footnotes, masters, etc.
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat "[A-H|K-N|R][P|1-9][A-Z|0-9][0-9]{2,4}\>"; //This pattern is our product
codes, I want to generate a list of all codes in the document
f = app.documents[0].findGrep();
if (f.length > 0)
{
s = "";
for (i = 0; i < f.length; i++)
s += f[i].contents + "\r";
alert("Found " + s);
app.documents.add ().textFrames.add ({contents: s, geometricBounds:

["5mm", "5mm", "100mm", "100mm"]});
alert("Search finished.");
Else
alert("Search string not found");
}
....and apparently the answer to that question is, "Nothing." No error
messages, script doesn't blow up, no alerts. Just sits there like a dead
crab. Using this basic principle I was able to get the VB.net app I was
working on to treat the findGrep() as an array and write its contents to
a text file. But the contents of the text file turned out to be:
"System.Com_Object"
"System.Com_Object"

Etc. for as many SKUs as are in the text. There just ought to be some
way to get VB to cast the search results as a string, but I'm dipped if
I can figure out what it is.

-----Original Message-----
From: InDesign Talk [mailto:indesign@lists.lassosoft.com] On Behalf Of
Peter Kahrel
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 9:30 PM
To: InDesign Talk
Subject: [SPAM-HEADER] - Re: Scripting FindGrep

Is this what you meant? The JavaScript below finds all numbers of more
than one digit and prints them in a new document.

Peter


app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; // set
options to in-/exclude footnotes, masters, etc.
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\d\\d+"; f app.documents[0].findGrep(); if (f.length > 0)
{
s = "";
for (i = 0; i < f.length; i++)
s += f[i].contents + "\r";
app.documents.add ().textFrames.add ({contents: s, geometricBounds:

["5mm", "5mm", "100mm", "100mm"]})
}



On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:25:53 -0000, Kathe Todd
<Kathe-T@audioeditions.com>
wrote:

> I'm programming for InDesign in VB.Net, which is similar but not
> identical to scripting in Vbscript. It seems like I ought to be able
> to code the same GREP search I could use in ID's Find GREP tab to find

> matching patterns one at a time, copy them to the clipboard, and then
> write them sequentially to a text file. But I've been playing around
> with it for a couple of hours and I can't seem to figure out how.
> There are darn few references online for using VB.Net to do stuff with
ID.
>
> Isn't there some way to script (either with VB or JS) so that the GREP

> find goes to the first instance, then allows you to copy it and do
> something with it before going on to the next? Experiments showed that

> if I included ChangeGrepPreferences it would go through and change
> every single instance of the found pattern to whatever I specified in
> ChangeTo. Not what I had in mind...
>
> Kathe Todd
>
> Audio Editions
>
> kathe-t@audioeditions.com

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