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Methods
The following table describes the functions of the boundaries object. They are available with all
file types.
Method Description Script type
"find()" below Finds the first occurrence of a string
starting from the current position.
Boundaries
Preprocessor, Extract,
Condition, Repeat, Action,
and Postprocessor steps
"get()" on
page397
Retrieves an array of strings.
Boundaries
"getVariable()"
on page397
Retrieves a value of a variable stored in
the boundaries object.
Boundaries
"set()" on
page397
Sets a new record boundary. (See:
"Record boundaries" on page227.)
Boundaries
"setVariable()"
on page399
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417).
Note
In PlanetPress Connect 1.8 and previous versions, the DataMapper's boundaries.find()
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