Iterate merge field names in docx excluding those that are part of a region

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Hi,

Using Java.
Say I have a document like so.

{{ Image:CompanyLogo }}
{{ CompanyName }}

{{ CompanyAddress }}

{{ #foreach Order }}{{ Date }} - {{ Invoice ID }}{{ /foreach Order }}

How would I get all field names that are not part of a foreach?

doc.getMailMerge().getFieldNames();

Gets me the ones in the loop as well.

These don’t work.

doc.getMailMerge().getFieldNamesForRegion(null);

doc.getMailMerge().getFieldNamesForRegion("");

Is it possible to do this with existing library functions?

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@LiamMitchell

Thanks for your inquiry. We will appreciate it if you please share your sample document here as ZIP file. We will look into it and will guide you exactly.

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Sample.zip (3.9 KB)

I would like to be able to use code to get each merge field that is not part of the nested foreach.

Example:

[ 'Image:CompanyLogo', 'CompanyName', 'CompanyAddress' ]

It’s okay if they are not returned as a String, so long as there is a collection I can iterate and get the textual content of each field.

Thanks

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@LiamMitchell

Thanks for sharing the sample document. You may try this code and customize it as per your requirements. Hopefully it will help you to accomplish the task.

com.aspose.words.Document doc = new com.aspose.words.Document("Sample.docx");
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder();
doc.getMailMerge().setUseNonMergeFields(true);
List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();

for (String item : doc.getMailMerge().getFieldNames())
{
    if (item.contains("TableStart"))
        break;
    else
        list.add(item);
 }
for (String field : list)
{
    System.out.println(field);
}