delete %20 space character

[jakec42735283]

Hello,

I've written a script which gives the user a list of links in the active document and returns the selected links in an array. It then searches a folder full of packaged INDD files and searches the links folders.

What I want to do is write an if statement that matches the two names.

However, the result of searching the folders puts %20 instead of a space so they never match.

How would I delete the %20 or add a %20 where there is a space character so that they match?

[tpk1982 · Accepted solution]

use decodeURI

[tpk1982]

JavaScript decodeURI() Function

[tpk1982]

For example..

var myFolder = File.openDialog("Select the Folder");
mydoc=app.documents[0];
if(myFolder!=null){FilePath=decodeURI(myFolder);} 
alert(FilePath)

[jakec42735283]

myFiles = myFolder.getFiles();  //store the target files in a variable

for ( var i = 0; i < myFiles.length; i++ ) {
   
if (myFiles instanceof Folder ){
   
    var myFileLinks = myFiles.getFiles("Links");
   
    for ( var l = 0; l < myFileLinks.length; l++ ) {
   
    var linkChecker = myFileLinks.getFiles();
   
    for ( var o = 0; o < linkChecker.length; o++ ) {

        for ( s = 0; s < mSelected.length; s++ ) {
           
            if (linkChecker.decodeURI() === mSelected.name) {
               
                $.writeln("found it");
               
                        }else ("Didn't work")
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

This is what I have, the decodeURI doesn't seem to work where I have put it.

linkChecker.constructor.name returns file so it should work?

[tpk1982]

Please give the code you used for myFolder... in your first line you called (myFiles = myFolder.getFiles();  //store the target files in a variable)

[jakec42735283]

It's OK I got it working, I wasn't using it properly.

decodeURI(uri string)

I was using this as a property and not a function

Thanks