• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  && is referencing only part 2

  Posted by Scott Mcgee on June 28, 2017 at 2:28 pm

  I’ve reached the end of project and realised that I haven’t taken into account. If my colleagues type in Weekdays/Weeknights 7.30pm & 8.30pm, the text goes over the edge of my border I’ve created.

  a = text.sourceText;
  if (a.indexOf (“Weekdays” && “.30pm &”) != -1){
  “Weekdays” +”\r”+ a.substr(9,25)
  }
  else if (a.indexOf (“Weeknights” && “.30pm &”) != -1){
  “Weeknights” +”\r”+ a.substr(12,25)
  }
  else
  a;

  but it seems to ignore the first word and only looks at “.30pm &”, which I don’t want it to. Any ideas?

  Scott Mcgee replied 9 years, 1 month ago 1 Member · 3 Replies
• 3 Replies

• 

  Scott Mcgee

  June 28, 2017 at 2:35 pm

  I’m an idiot once again.

  For anyone having issue to find multiple words using indexOf

  a = text.sourceText;
  if (a.indexOf ((“Weekdays”) && (“.30pm &”)) != -1){
  “Weekdays” +”\r”+ a.substr(9,25)
  }
  else if (a.indexOf ((“Weeknights”) && (“.30pm &”)) != -1){
  “Weeknights” +”\r”+ a.substr(12,25)
  }
  else
  a;
• 

  Scott Mcgee

  June 28, 2017 at 2:43 pm

  Nope I was too quick to respond

  a = text.sourceText;
  if (a.indexOf ((“Weekdays”) && (“.30pm &”)) != -1){
  “Weekdays” +”\r”+ a.substr(9,25)
  }
  else if (a.indexOf ((“Weeknights”) && (“.30pm &”)) != -1){
  “Weeknights” +”\r”+ a.substr(12,25)
  }
  else
  a;

  if I type “Weeknights 7.30pm & 8.30pm”, the result ends up

  Weekdays
  s 7.30pm & 8.30pm
• 

  Scott Mcgee

  June 28, 2017 at 3:27 pm

  Not the way I wanted to write it, but this works

  input = text.sourceText;
  result = text.sourceText;
  for (var i = 1; i <= 24; i++){
  if (input.indexOf(“Weekdays “+i+”.30pm &”) > -1){
  result = input.substr(0,8) +”\r”+ input.substr(9,25);
  break;
  }
  else if (input.indexOf(“Weeknights “+i+”.30pm &”) > -1){
  result = input.substr(0,10) +”\r”+ input.substr(11,25);
  break;
  }
  }
  result

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