• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Word within a group of words

  Posted by Scott Mcgee on June 14, 2017 at 8:45 am

  So I have an expression, but I’ve found a flaw I need to rectify.

  input = thisComp.layer(“TEXT”).text.sourceText;
  if ((input == “bristol”) == 1) value else 0;

  I’ve included an expression on “TEST” so that it only does “toLowerCase()” so that I don’t have to worry about case sensitivity.

  But I what I would now like to it do is search within words.

  If my “TEXT” layer contained “Having a great time here in Bristol”, it will see the word bristol and still work, but it won’t because it only wants that specific word.

  The reason I want this to work, is because some people leave spaces accidentally at the front or back of a word and ring me up telling me that they’ve spelt it right and that it isn’t working. I want to upgrade the above expression to compensate for multiple space and wording. Any ideas. I’ve tried a few things, but no success.

  Scott Mcgee replied 9 years, 2 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  Scott Mcgee

  June 14, 2017 at 9:18 am

  Found it

  input = thisComp.layer(“station”).text.sourceText;

  if (input.indexOf(“Bristol”) != -1) {
  100
  } else {
  0
  }

  Just incase anyone else has this issue

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