: Indesign script to automate GREP Find/Replace This question follows on from my previous question on the subject of GREP and find/replace functionality of InDesign. To summarize the situation, my

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This question follows on from my previous question on the subject of GREP and find/replace functionality of InDesign. To summarize the situation, my InDesign document has 3 character styles applied to the text at various places: bold, italic, bolditalic. The names of those character styles are self-explanatory.

I want to write a script that looks for text styled with any of the above character styles and wraps them in an appropriate HTML tag. For example, I want all text styled as bold to be wrapped in the <b>...</b> tags, and so on. In my previous question, the accepted answer by Jongware does an excellent job of explaining how to perform a manual Find/Replace using GREP. Now I wish to automate the process by writing a script to handle it. Here's my first attempt:

app.findGrepPreferences=app.changeGrepPreferences=null;
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle="bold";
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo="<b>[CO]</b>";
app.activeDocument.changeGrep();


This works except that it only wraps thew first character of the affected text in the given tags and erases the rest. Thus a text like "This is an example text." changed to "This is an e text." What am I doing wrong?

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