• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  How to retrieve language specific letters in if else statement

  Posted by Piotr Wojtczak on September 26, 2016 at 8:21 am

  Hello gyus,
  I’m preparing AE template for a client and I want the lower thirds to be edited directly from Premiere Pro via dynamic links. I use SourceRectAtTime() function to generate background for text and everything is but the problem happens, when I have Polish language specific letters Ó, Ż, Ć, Ń.

  Basically what I want is to lower the position of the shape when the test include one of those language specific letter. How do I retrieve them in if esle statemanet?

  I imagine an expression on x position value of a shape like this:
  if (thisLayer.textSource include Ó,Ż,Ń,Ć) "new x position value" else "old x position value"

  Am I thinking in a good way? I would be really grateful for help.

  Cheers!

  if (thisLayer.textSource include Ó,Ż,Ń,Ć) "new x position value" else "old x position value"

  Piotr Wojtczak replied 9 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Xavier Gomez

  September 27, 2016 at 10:03 pm

  You can use indexOf, as many times as there are letters to test:

  str = thisLayer.textSource.value;
if (str.indexOf("Ó")>=0 || str.indexOf("Ż")>=0 || str.indexOf("Ń")>=0 || str.indexOf("Ć")>=0){
thisValue;
}
else{
thatValue;
};

  If you like it short, this also works:

  if (RegExp("\[ÓŻŃĆ\]").test(thisLayer.textSource.value)) thisValue else thatValue;

  Xavier
• 

  Piotr Wojtczak

  October 11, 2016 at 7:23 am

  Thanks a lot!

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