find
find(searchStr[, flags[, element[, doc]]])
This function searches for the specified string searchStr. The search ignores generated text and returns 1 on success, 0 on failure.
• searchStr — String to search for.
• flags — Bit mask for modifying the search.
◦ 0x0001 - backward search (-b)
◦ 0x0002 - case sensitive search (-c)
◦ 0x0004 - searchStr is regular expression (-e)
◦ 0x0008 - whole word only search
◦ 0x0010 - searchStr contains markup (-markup)
◦ 0x0020 - quiet search (-q) default is (-noq)
◦ 0x0040 - don't prompt for wrapping at end of instance (-wrapprompt)
◦ 0x0080 - wrap search (-wrapscan)
◦ 0x0100 - don't wrap search (-nowrapscan) default is -wrapscan preference
◦ 0x0200 - select searchStr when found (-select)
◦ 0x0400 - don't select searchStr when found (-noselect) default is -selectscan preference
◦ 0x0800 - search contents of entities (-entityscan)
◦ 0x1000 - don't search contents of entities (-noentityscan) default is -entityscan preference
◦ 0x2000 - search for next equation (-equation) searchStr ignored
◦ 0x4000 - search for next image (-image) searchStr ignored
◦ 0x8000 - search for next table (-table) searchStr ignored
◦ 0x10000 - selection will be unbalanced regardless of the
balancedselections Advanced Preference and
set option.
• element — Search only the contents of elements with this name.
• doc — Current document instance is used if not specified.