• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Write Text from Character X to Character Y

  Posted by Christopher Bly on March 14, 2018 at 5:41 pm

  I’m fairly sure there’s a pretty simple expression for this, but I can’t remember it and hopefully someone can jog my memory. I’m looking for an expression that only writes part of a string of text, from character X to character Y.
  Example: If I have a text layer with the source text “Expression”, but I only want it to write starting at the 3rd character and ending at the 9th, so it would come out “pressi”.
  Anyone have an idea of how this is done?

  Dan Ebberts

  

  replied 8 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Dan Ebberts

  March 14, 2018 at 5:53 pm

  Either of these should work:

  value.substr(2,6) // first character, how many

  value.substring(2,8) // first character, last character

  Dan

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