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Method Description Script type
"Record boundaries" on page227.)
"setVariable()"
on page401
Sets a boundaries variable to the
specified value, automatically creating
the variable if it doesn't exist yet.
Boundaries
find()
Method of the boundaries object that finds a string in a region of the data source file. The
method returns the region in which the string was searched (PDF file) or the exact region in
which the string was encountered (Text file).
To check if the call to boundaries.find() was successful, you can read the region object's
property found (see "region" on page422).
Note
In PlanetPress Connect 1.8 and previous versions, the DataMapper's boundaries.find()
function returned the region searched within PDF files, whereas for text files it returned
the exact region where the text was found. In 2018.1 this was changed so that
boundaries.find() on PDFs would return the exact region where the text was found, the
same as for text files. However, it was subsequently found that this could cause issues
with previously created templates using the function on PDF files. Consequently, this
change was reverted in 2018.1.1.
find(stringToFind, in_Region)
Finds the string stringToFind in a rectangular region defined by in_Region.
stringToFind
String to find.
in_Region
The in_Region region can be created prior to the call to find() with the region.createRegion()
method. It depends on the type of data source how a region is defined; see "createRegion()"
on page423.
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