Filter page items by property in Javascript

what javascript equivalent applescript?

 

set xxx every page item note = "john"

 

after looking @ of tutorials, pieced together. there better way of doing this? 30,000 path items took on minute execute...

 

docref = app.activedocument;

 

var pathlength = docref.pathitems.length;

 

docref.pathitems[0].note;

 

var hitlist = []

for (i = 0; i<pathlength; i++)

 

{

if (docref.pathitems[i].note= "john")

{

hitlist.push(i)  

}

}

 

alert(hitlist.length)

no better way think, shouldn’t if (docref.pathitems[i].note == "john") ?

and if want length, there no need create array, increase count ok, maybe little faster.

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