CS3: Period in findWhat crashes InDesign

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From: Walt_Wooton
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:33

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This code crashes InDesign CS3:

app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = ", .";
app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = ".";
app.changeText();

This works fine:

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = ", \\.";
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = ".";
app.changeGrep();

Hope this helps someone.

Walt

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