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Ganesh Kunwar
Ganesh Kunwar

Reputation: 2653

Method findText with regexp

I want to find a string in the google document using findText(searchPattern) method. My searchPattern is regexp as in following:

  var doc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();
  var textToHighlight = '';
  textToHighlight = new RegExp(  "this" ); 
  textLocation = doc.findText(textToHighlight);

But it gave me the following error instead search the text:

Google Apps Script: Argument cannot be null: prompt

I read the documentation of the findText method in Text class. Here it specifies the searchPattern as string. Is there any alternative to find the text using regexp.
Thanks

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2091

Answers (1)

Henrique G. Abreu
Henrique G. Abreu

Reputation: 17752

You have to pass a string to this function, but it will convert it into RegExp for you. This is not like the string.match function that differentiates strings from regexes.

doc.findText("any\\s+regex.*works");

Upvotes: 4

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