• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Text Character Index

  Posted by Madli Man on May 22, 2014 at 6:29 pm

  Hi forum,

  Let say i have a text layer 1 wrote “WELCOME”.
  and i have a another text layer 2 to pick one of the letter from text layer 1 “WELCOME”. eg: L

  How can i do that? Please help me. 🙂

  Thank you.

  Madliman

  Madli Man replied 11 years, 12 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

• 

  Dan Ebberts

  May 22, 2014 at 6:52 pm

  Like this:

  thisComp.layer(“text layer 1”).text.sourceText[2]

  Dan
• 

  Madli Man

  May 22, 2014 at 6:56 pm

  Thank you Mr Dan. 🙂
• 

  Dan Ebberts

  May 22, 2014 at 7:01 pm

  If you wanted more than one contiguous character (“lc” for example), you could do it this way:

  thisComp.layer(“text layer 1”).text.sourceText.substr(2,2)

  Dan
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  Madli Man

  May 22, 2014 at 7:14 pm

  ah yes. it might useful too.

  Thank you mrDan

  Madliman

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