Regular Expression Class in RoboHelp

[Charlotte_Grow]

Is there any class in RoboHelp object model for working with regular expressions? Or maybe a class for find and change option?

In Javascript there is RegExp class. Does RoboHelp have the same?

[Charlotte_Grow]

Is it possible to use JavaScript DOM when scripting for RoboHelp?

[Peter Grainge]

Charlotte

Can you perhaps explain in plain terms what it is you are trying to do?

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[Charlotte_Grow]

Not all regular operations are recognized in RoboHelp. I need to extend  the capabilities of  an option Find with regular expressions or just try to do it. So I need to know what class will help me.

[Peter Grainge]

It sounds like you have a detailed knowledge of using Regex which I do not. I simply hack around within PowerGrep or Text Crawler and seem to achieve what I need. If you can forget talking about operations and classes and explain what you are trying to find, maybe I can tell you whether I have faced issues with that.

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[Charlotte_Grow]

I need to make my own script that will make a search with regular expressions.

[Peter Grainge]

I suspect you have a development background which I do not have. Regular expressions work just fine from the tools I have used (as above plus dnGrep) but I think you want to create a script of some sort that takes in regular expressions, effectively replacing the tools I have used to run the expressions. I am sorry I cannot help you on that Charlotte.

Curiosity makes me ask why you have to do this with your own script rather than the tools I have used.

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[Charlotte_Grow]

It's for my diploma project.

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

I don't claim to understand what you are doing, but in reply to your questions:

• RoboHelp Extendscript does not have DOM as a browser does. Instead, you can use the TokenManager which is more basic, but it does the job.
• You can use JavaScript regular expressions. I don't know what you want to achieve exactly, but you can either traverse the structure of the file with the RH TokenManager but you can also load file contents and parse that using regexp.

You may be interested in my introduction to ExtendScript in RH: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/robohelp/articles/robohelp-extendscript.html It explains the basics of ExtendScript in RH and it should be very accessible if I estimate your level based on your forum questions.

Greet,

Willam