How to run a regex formula on the contents of a draft

[sylumer]

This topic you started recently includes examples of running a regular expression for text substitution on the current draft.

Is it possible to create a header extraction (=annotations summary) action?

Hello, I have come to use markdown headers (#) to make annotations when I review documents converted to drafts. Headers are convenient as annotations because the red font is easy to see when I scroll down drafts. I would like to create an action which would basically extract all the header lines from the draft and copy them into a new draft, creating the equivalent of an annotations summary which you commonly find with PDF files. Intuitively, I wonder if some kind of regex formula could do t…

See my first reply to you with the one line script and the subsequent script and action.

Effectively you want to get the draft content and then use a standard JavaScript function that is regular expression aware (such as the replace function for a string, which is what draft content is) on that.