• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Are there text functions, like left(“hello”,3)?

  Posted by Paul Roper on October 16, 2012 at 1:17 pm

  I’m looking to use an expression to extract the leftmost and rightmost chunks from another text layer, but can’t find anything helpful – searching for “after effects expression text left right” just brings up thousands of results that mention right-clicking and such.

  So, is there a simple way to do this that anyone knows of? Something along the lines of:

  a=”hello world”;
  left(a,4)

  gives “hell”
  ??

  Dan Ebberts replied 13 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Paul kenneth Egell-johnsen

  October 16, 2012 at 2:30 pm

  You can use the animators for text objects to select stuff by index and by character. Check out the presets for text animation for more ideas.
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  Dan Ebberts

  October 16, 2012 at 3:05 pm

  You can use the JavaScript string methods. In your example, a.substr(0,5) would give you “hello”, a.substr(-5) would give you “world”.

  Dan

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