Using findAllPattern with different paragraphs

[jmparada]

I am using findAllPattern to search for patterns over the entire word document. As I have been able to verify, when the pattern is between several paragraphs, it does not find them. Therefore the result of findAllPattern only returns complete patterns within each paragraph. I would like to know if this behavior is so. My goal is to find all the patterns in the document and replace them with other content.
Thanks.

[Andy.Zhou]

Hello,

Thanks for your inquiry.

If you need to match the content cross multiple paragraphs, please try the method below. If this is not you need, please give a more detailed description.

Code: Select all

//true = use advance search
TextSelection[] selections=doc.findAllPattern(pattern,true);

[jmparada]

It has worked well, thank you. In the documentation of the classes there is no option for that second boolean parameter.

[Andy.Zhou]

Hi,

Sorry, We do not update the documentation very frequently, and I will urge relevant colleagues to update them.

[jmparada]

For reasons of the use that I am giving it, I need to search with findPattern to only search the first one that it finds. In this case this method does not allow me the second parameter "true" to search in several paragraphs. No problem because I can always use findAllPattern and stick with the first one. I only mention it because it could be an improvement to include.
Thanks.

[Andy.Zhou]

Hello,

Thanks for your advice. I will feed it back to our development team.
Have a nice day!

[jmparada]

I just found another problem with this. The findAllPattern method, with the second parameter set to true, works well between paragraphs as we have seen in previous posts. Now I have found that it does not work if, in addition to paragraphs, there are images, tables or lists.

[Andy.Zhou]

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback.

We do not support this situation. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.