Works fine for me, I think you didn't follow my instructions

Hi,

Is there any way to alter this script so that it finds only numbers greater than a certain number? That is, I need to insert 2 pages after page 32, so every page number in the index that is greater than 32 needs to be incremented by 2, but pages 1-32 need to stay the same.

Thanks in advance if you can help!

awesome; thank you very much. I will test it out and let you know.

ArchieOldie wrote:

 

Oh, I'm an idiot. No, I did not have anything selected. Why, why, why is it so hard to follow directions? In my haste I forgot to re-read before the test. Yes, once I selected the text the script worked beautifully. Thank you so much for your help!

Ok,

I know my one line instruction "Select the text and then run the script" is a bit on the complicated side so I have added a catch for those in need of a nap.

made a couple of other changes as well.

#target indesign
 try {
       mySelection=app.selection[0];
  app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
   var oldnum;
  app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\d+";
   myFinds= new Array;
 myFinds=mySelection.findGrep();
 
  pagesToAdd=parseInt(prompt ("Ammount to add to page numbers ?", "1", "Ammount to add to page numbers ?"));
  fromPage=parseInt(prompt ("Add "+pagesToAdd+" to page numbers from page ?", "1", "Add "+pagesToAdd+"Add "+pagesToAdd+" to page numbers from page ?"));
  untilPage=parseInt(prompt ("Add "+pagesToAdd+" to page numbers from page "+fromPage+" until page ?", app.documents[0].pages.length, "Add "+pagesToAdd+" to page numbers from page "+fromPage+" until page ?"));
 
app.doScript("main()", ScriptLanguage.javascript,
  undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT,
  "Adjust index page numbers");
function main(){
 
  myFinds=mySelection.findGrep();
  for (c=0;c<myFinds.length;c++) {
    oldnum=1*myFinds[c].contents;
    if (oldnum >= fromPage && oldnum <=untilPage) {
      p=pagesToAdd+oldnum;
      q=p.toString();
      app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo=q;
      myFinds[c].changeGrep();
   }
  }
}
} 
catch (noSelection) {
    alert("Did you realy wan't to adjust every number in your "+app.documents[0].pages.length
    +" page document!!!!\rMaybe you just wanted to change the index entries????\rHave a little nap and then select the text of the index and run the script again"); 
    }

I made quite an advanced version of this script that also cleans up the index entries, checks that their in the right order (changes 3,6,4, 55-34 to 3, 4, 6, 34-55) using appropriate separators and spacing and dealing with numbers that are part of the entry and not the page number. I.e "WWII 1939 - 1945 34, 66, 36" will change to "WWII 1939 - 1945 36, 38, 68" if we add 2 to the pages and not "WWII 1941 - 1947 36, 38, 68"

But sorry not giving that one away as a freebie for now.

Regards

Trevor