• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Replace $ in text

  Posted by Yan Trudel on July 7, 2017 at 4:23 pm

  I’m looking to replace special characters in text.
  I’m using the replace function but for some reason it doesn’t seem to work with $ signs.

  Instead, it detects the $ and adds an S at the end of the text line.

  Is there a trick to make it work or maybe i’m doing this wrong?

  myText = comp("Control_HUB").layer("TITRE").text.sourceText;
myText.replace(/q|ç|ä|à|é|è|ê|ë|ô|ö|ü|ù/g,"e").replace(/,|;|ï|î/g,"i").replace(/$/g,"s");


  Yan Trudel replied 9 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  July 7, 2017 at 4:35 pm

  I think you have to escape the $ in a regexp with a backslash. Try it this way:

  .replace(/\$/g,”s”);

  Dan
• 

  Yan Trudel

  July 7, 2017 at 4:53 pm

  Once again, you save the day!

  Thanks Dan, it works perfectly now! 🙂

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