Script for applying hyperlinks to text

Question

Being unfamiliar with coding I'm having trouble tweaking the code below. I need to hyperlink the "#" and everything after the "#" until a "space". The digits after the "#" can be variables and there may be as many as five digits.

Sample below:

var doc = app.activeDocument; 

// get URL 

app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; 

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '(?i)(?<=# )(https?|www)\\S+\\>='; 

var mURL = doc.findGrep(); 

// get Texte 

app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; 

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '#'; 

var mSource = doc.findGrep(); 

 

for (var k = 0; k <mSource.length; k++){ 

   var mHyperlinkDestination = doc.hyperlinkURLDestinations.add(mURL[k].contents); 

   var mHyperlinkTextSource = doc.hyperlinkTextSources.add(mSource[k]); 

  mHyperlink = doc.hyperlinks.add(mHyperlinkTextSource,mHyperlinkDestination); 

  mHyperlink.name =mURL[k].contents; 

  mHyperlink.visible=false; 

} 

//remove URL text 

app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; 

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '(?i)(?<=# )(https?|www)\\S+\\>='; 

app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = ''; 

doc.changeGrep(); 

Answer 1

This should work:

var doc = app.activeDocument; 

// get URL 
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; 
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '\\s(https?|www)(://).+$'; 
var mURL = doc.findGrep(); 

// get Texte 
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; 
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '#\\d{1,5}'; 
var mSource = doc.findGrep(); 

for (var k = 0; k <mSource.length; k++){ 
  var mHyperlinkDestination = doc.hyperlinkURLDestinations.add(mURL[k].contents); 
  var mHyperlinkTextSource = doc.hyperlinkTextSources.add(mSource[k]); 
  mHyperlink = doc.hyperlinks.add(mHyperlinkTextSource,mHyperlinkDestination); 
  mHyperlink.name =mURL[k].contents + '_' + k; 
  mHyperlink.visible=false; 
} 

//remove URL text 
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; 
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '(?<= )(https?|www)(://).+$'; 
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = ''; 
doc.changeGrep(); 

Overall it, was just some minor tweaks

1) Change the grep search for the URLs

2) Changed the grep search for the numbers ("#" followed by 1-5 digits)

3) Two hyperlinks cannot have the same name. I changed that line to also number them, you may want to tweak to suit your needs, one thing you could do is use mSource[k].contents + '_' + mURL[k].contents, though if you have repeats, you'll run into the same problem.