regex - Google Apps Script text formatting with special characters -

regex - Google Apps Script text formatting with special characters -

i trying alter formatting datatype declarations in google doc file this:

[char(10)]

to this:

i using regex identify instances this:

var fdt = new regexp('\[varchar|char|numeric|bit|date|number|decimal[(0-9,)]+?\]','gi'); while (match= fdt.exec(bodyelement.astext().gettext())){ ... }

it correctly finds datatypes want process. however, code format fails. think because contains both [] , ().

i need find instances of match , using within while loop:

var sr = bodyelement.findtext(match[0]); while (sr !== null){ var te = sr.getelement(); var tet = te.astext(); tet.setattributes(sr.getstartoffset(),sr.getendoffsetinclusive(),formatstyle); sr = bodyelement.findtext(match[0],sr); }

this isn't correctly stepping through total body looking matched text. work if utilize word 'char', char in charring updated.

how create work?

update:

putting them together:

/* * standard variables */ var formatstyle = {}; formatstyle[documentapp.attribute.font_family]=documentapp.fontfamily.calibri; formatstyle[documentapp.attribute.foreground_color]='#ff6600'; formatstyle[documentapp.attribute.font_size]='11'; formatstyle[documentapp.attribute.italic]=true; function finddatatype(){ var fdt = new regexp('\[varchar|char|numeric|bit|date|number|decimal[(0-9,)]+?\]','gi'); while (match= fdt.exec(bodyelement.astext().gettext())){ var sr = bodyelement.findtext(match[0]); while (sr !== null){ var te = sr.getelement(); var tet = te.astext(); tet.setattributes(sr.getstartoffset(),sr.getendoffsetinclusive(),formatstyle); sr = bodyelement.findtext(match[0],sr); } }

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