• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Repeating text on every line

  Posted by Dean Gregory on July 19, 2014 at 6:24 am

  Hi there guys,

  Was just checking out some stuff on ‘for’ loops… but can’t seem get this to work.

  Wanted to see something like this:

  subject
  subject
  subject
  subject
  subject
  subject
  subject
  subject

  Basically where I can just have the text repeat line after line. I wrote an expression for Source Text that goes like this but all i get to see is one line in the output i.e. ‘subject’

  myText = “subject”;
  for(i=1; i<=8; i++){
  myText += “\r\n” ;
  }

  What am I doing wrong? Please help. Thanks!

  Cheers,

  Dean

  myText = "subject";
for(i=1; i<=8; i++){
myText += "\r\n" ;
}
myText;

  Dean Gregory replied 11 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Xavier Gomez

  July 19, 2014 at 9:00 am

  You forgot to add the characters themselves in the loop.

  s = myText = “subject”;
  for(i=1; i<8; i++) s += "\r" + myText;
  s;

  Xavier
• 

  Dean Gregory

  July 19, 2014 at 9:22 am

  Hi Xavier,

  Thanks for your reply. Was trying at my end as well and came up with this.

  myText = “”;
  for(i=1; i<=8; i++){
  myText += “subject” + “\r\n” ;
  }

  It did the job but I’m not sure whether it is a roundabout way of handling the problem. Thanks once again!

  Cheers,

  Dean

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