Scripting help

Question

First of all I am totally newbie with scripting.
My txt file example >>

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I want a script to search for term "Black" which located under "Colour" which located under "Clothes".
so the script should highlight only "Black" in line 7.
I tried Regex but it seems it doesn't fit to do this task

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Yes Dave, That is exactly what I want to do. I don't understand what you mean about "source documents", They are just txt files.

Comments

You probably could do something like that but just to make sure I understand... you have a text file with TAB indented levels. You want to be able to search that text file for information at a certain indented level dependent on the parent, correct? Can I ask what the source documents are?

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Any answer?

Answer 1

Try this:

// Tree search script - Searches for text in a file that is using a tab indented data structure. 
//
// Copyright (C) Mythicsoft  Ltd 2014

var parentLevels = new Array("", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
var strSearchFor = SearchParms.ContainingTextCustomParm;
var regexCompare = new RegExp(strSearchFor, "i");

function isValidLine( nLineNum, strText )
{
    var bIsValid = false;
    try
    {
        // First calculate the tab indentation

        var nTabLevel = 0;
        while ((nTabLevel < strText.length) && (strText.charAt(nTabLevel) == "\t"))
            ++nTabLevel;

        var strThis = strText.substr(nTabLevel);
        parentLevels[nTabLevel] = strThis;

        // Build up the parent string

        var strParent = "";
    
        for (var nParent = 0; (nParent <= nTabLevel) && (nParent < parentLevels.length) ; ++nParent)
        {
            if (strParent.length > 0)
                strParent += "->";
            strParent += parentLevels[nParent];
        }
    
        bIsValid = regexCompare.test(strParent);
    }
    catch( e )	{}
    return bIsValid;
}

Each line will built to include the parent level data using '->' as a separator, e.g, Clothes->Colour->Black. To search simply put the path your looking for in the Parm field.

IMPORTANT: Because lines are only passed to script if they've passed the filter you also need to specify a value in Containing Text on the Main tab. Something like * will do.

Comments

Thank you very much