• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  minus sign in external data = bug ?

  Posted by Nicolas Elsig on June 1, 2012 at 1:48 pm

  hello I’m loading external data from a text file … everything is fine with the eval expression taking the data based on the name of the comp

  here’s the external data

  Sion = [“+23°C”,”+36°C”];
  Monthey = [“+1°C”,”+25°C”];
  St-Gingolph = [“-6°C”,”+21°C”];

  the last line St-Gingolf is making AE to say : warning Class “global” has no property or method named “St” Expression disabled

  can somebody help please ?

  myPath = "/Expressions/";
myPath += "externalData.txt";
$.evalFile (myPath);
eval(thisComp.name)[0];

  Nicolas Elsig replied 14 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Dan Ebberts

  June 1, 2012 at 2:58 pm

  St-Gingolph is not a valid variable name in JavaScript. St_Gingolph would work.

  Dan
• 

  Nicolas Elsig

  June 2, 2012 at 6:52 am

  Thank you Dan for the precision. I will work with an underscore.

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