Converting MM to inches in text

[S.Vibe]

Hey guys,

I was wondering if there is an automated way, to conver mm in a document to i nches by running a script. See the below, i have tables and text like this:

Installation Dimensions (WxDxH)

224 x 534 x 667  mm

236 x 569 x 428.5 mm

231 x 600 x 430 mm

231 x 438 x 600 mm

255 x 486 x 404 mm

351 x 454 x 513 mm

It would be amazing life i could automate it rather then manually having to go the document through to do it.

[Jongware]

Piece of cake. Lots of such scripts already exist but someone can write it faster from scratch than you can find one online.

How many decimals of accuracy do you need?

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Just do a research on: Peter Kahrel or Steve Wareham!

(^/) 

[winterm]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/%5BJongware%5D  wrote

... someone can write it faster from scratch ...

... and I even know the name of that someone!

[Jongware · Accepted solution]

're you go. I didn't want to wait for that accuracy so I took the usual mils (3).

app.findGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\d+(\\.\\d*)?\\s+x\\s+\\d+(\\.\\d*)?\\s+x\\s+\\d+(\\.\\d*)?\\s+mm\\b";
var list = app.activeDocument.findGrep( false);
while (list.length)
{
item = list.pop();
text = item.contents;
// mm to in at the end
text = text.replace('mm', 'inch')
// convert values
text = text.replace(/\d+(\.\d*)?/g, function(val) { return Math.round(1000*parseFloat(val)/25.4)/1000; })
item.contents = text;
}

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[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Cool! … 

and Thanks!

(^/)