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How could I search certain text with regex?

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2009-09-13 04:53:48
gavin2u
Registered: Jul 3 2009
Posts: 76
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Hi,

I wanna search a certain pattern using regex, and add an underline annotation to it.

But how could i search text using regex in javascript ?

thanks

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gavin

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Acrobat Pro 9.0, Windows
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2009-09-13 10:22:33
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
You have to look word by word on each page of the PDF using the 'getPageNthWord(nPage, nWord, bStrip)' and the 'getPageNumWords(nPage), methods. There is an example in the JS API Refence that shows how to do this for a spelling check.

George Kaiser

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2009-09-13 18:24:57
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gavin2u
Registered: Jul 3 2009
Posts: 76
gkaiseril wrote:
You have to look word by word on each page of the PDF using the 'getPageNthWord(nPage, nWord, bStrip)' and the 'getPageNumWords(nPage), methods. There is an example in the JS API Refence that shows how to do this for a spelling check.
thx gkaiseri, i am finally aware of that it is impossible to use regex directly in acrobat javascript.
Of course, I'd to use the methods you mentioned above, and now, I get a very near result. :)

thx

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gavin
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