• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  replace characters with expression

  Posted by Jorge Froberg on October 14, 2014 at 12:58 pm

  Hey guys,

  I have an expression that is supposed to replace all weird characters, spaces and enters in a text layer. It works for the spaces. However, it only seems to work for the first charachter in the sentence for the characthers I’m replacing in my expresssion. For example, I wont the letter ó to change into o. My word dwóch i pół comes out dwochipól. I tried to look for a solution but couldn’t find it. I imagine this could be a very simple fix, but sadly I’m not aware of it.
  Could someone please help me with this?

  My code:
  T1 = comp("Composition1").layer("TextLayer").text.sourceText.replace(/ /gi, "").replace(/\r/gi, "").replace("ó","o").replace("\u017C", "z").toLowerCase();

  Thanks in advance,
  Jorge Fröberg

  Jorge Froberg replied 11 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  October 14, 2014 at 4:21 pm

  I think you just need to use the same format that you used to remove the spaces:

  .replace(/ó/gi,”o”).replace(/\u017C/gi, “z”).toLowerCase();

  Dan
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  Jorge Froberg

  October 14, 2014 at 6:30 pm

  Oh boy, so simple. This worked, thanks Dan !

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