Is it possible to search a string in an other textfield?

The core JavaScript model contains several functions for searching/matching text. The simplest and easiest function to use is the "String.indexOf()" function.

Here's a some code that searches "TextField1" for text entered into "TextFeild2"

var nPos = TextField1.rawValue.indexOf(TextField2.rawValue);
if(nPos >= 0)
app.alert("Text Found");

The indexOf function returns -1 if the text is not found.

The core JavaScript model contains several functions for searching/matching text. The simplest and easiest function to use is the "String.indexOf()" function.

Here's a some code that searches "TextField1" for text entered into "TextFeild2"

var nPos = TextField1.rawValue.indexOf(TextField2.rawValue);
if(nPos >= 0)
app.alert("Text Found");

The indexOf function returns -1 if the text is not found.

Thank you, it works. Is it also possible to return a value how often it appears in textfield1?

The nPos var counts a little bit weird for me, so it returns 11 for a search-term which is 3 times in the text.

It's finding the first match and returns the index of the start of the found text. There is second optional input to the "indexOf" function, which is the position at which to start the search. So you could write this as a loop, using the index of previous search as the start of the next search.

var nStart = 0, nPos, nCnt=0;
do{
nPos = TextField1.rawValue.indexOf(TextField2.rawValue, nStart);
nStart = nPos+1;
if(nPos >=0) nCnt++;
}while(nPos >= 0)

There are also other ways this could be done. For example, with a regular expression. But to do this effectively you'll need a JavaScript Reference and some skill at programming.

Thanks. The nCount was, what I was looking for!