• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Adding space after 3 numbers

  Posted by Remy Berden on August 24, 2016 at 10:20 am

  Hi, I’m working on a project where I need to display a number, with a space between numbers every 3 characters.

  So, for example:
  300
  30 000
  300 000
  300 000 000
  etc.

  Now I have to following code to add a comma to the numbers, if I try to replace ‘,’ with ‘ ‘ though, I get a syntax error. Any suggestions for workarounds?

  var toDisplay = comp("00_input").layer("cijfer_3_1")("Text")("Source Text").value;

  var num = toDisplay;
  num = Comma(num);
  [num]

  function Comma(number)
  {
  number = '' + Math.round(number);
  if (number.length > 3)
  {
  var mod = number.length % 3;
  var output = (mod > 0 ? (number.substring(0,mod)) : '');
  for (i=0 ; i < Math.floor(number.length / 3); i++)
  {
  if ((mod == 0) && (i == 0))
  output += number.substring(mod+ 3 * i, mod + 3 * i + 3);
  else
  output+= "," + number.substring(mod + 3 * i, mod + 3 * i + 3);
  }
  return (output);
  }
  else return number;
  }

  Kalleheikki Kannisto replied 9 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
• 1 Reply

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  Kalleheikki Kannisto

  August 24, 2016 at 1:30 pm

  That should work. The syntax error may be the < instead of <

  Kalleheikki Kannisto
  Senior Graphic Designer

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