[JS] [CS3 onwards] Simplify some code

It would most likely be a lot faster if you did a findText() instead of looping through all the paragraphs.

Roy,

I sometimes use this approach to processing a story. Usually, I'll have a large switch that operates on the appliedParagraphStyle.name property. But, unfortunately, this:

myStory = app.selection[0].parentStory;
myPSnames = myStory.paragraphs.everyItem().appliedParagraphStyle.name;

Doesn't work. So, instead, I use:

myStory = app.selection[0].parentStory;
myPstyles = myStory.paragraphs.everyItem().appliedParagraphStyle;
for (var j = myPstyles.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
     switch (myPstyles[j].name) {
          case ...
          case ...

etc.

Dave

Now I think about it, when processing a story in this fashion, it doesn't matter a lot whether you go forwards or backwards through the story. I wrote the loop in the example above to go backwards out of habit, but when you're accessing paragraphs by index in the story, as long as you don't change the number of paragraphs, you can loop either way.

Dave