• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Inserting space before a capital letter

  Posted by Griffin Englander on March 19, 2018 at 2:36 am

  Hey all,

  Bugger all expression knowledge relative to the rest of this forum, but here’s my question.

  I’m using the below expression to deliver the comp name from “JobNumber_CompName”

  I’m just wondering if it’s possible for an expression to see the capital letter (Specifically any after the C) and insert a space beforehand?

  I know I could just add the space in the comp name, but for output purpose, I’d rather not.

  Thanks in advance!

  thisComp.name.split("_")[1]

  Griffin Englander replied 8 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  March 19, 2018 at 3:00 am

  I can’t tell if this is what you’re looking for, but maybe:

  ” ” + thisComp.name.split(“_”)[1];

  Dan
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  Griffin Englander

  March 19, 2018 at 4:11 am

  Thanks for the reply Dan,

  Sorry I shouldv’e been more clear. My end goal is for the text to show “Comp Name” or whatever it would be named.

  Basically looking for a Capital and inserting a space between. Ie. JobNumber32A_JobCalledBob, would return “Job Called Bob”

  This doesn’t feel very possible but worth a shot.

  Cheers
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  Griffin Englander

  March 19, 2018 at 4:14 am

  Okay, little updated.

  I’ve found I can accomplish it, if I separate the words by another “_” and use this expression

  thisComp.name.split(“_”)[1]+(” “)+thisComp.name.split(“_”)[2]

  Is there a way for the expression to look for the number of underscores, and array them as such?
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  Kevin Camp

  March 19, 2018 at 8:01 pm

  in regards to splitting based off capital letters, i found this thread on stack overflow:
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7888238/javascript-split-string-on-uppercase-characters

  and was able to make it work in AE with this expression:

  myComp = thisComp.name.split("_")[1] ;
  myComp.match( /[A-Z][a-z]+|[0-9]+/g ).join(" ") ;

  Kevin Camp
  Art Director
  KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW
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  Griffin Englander

  March 19, 2018 at 11:06 pm

  You’re a legend Kevin. Works a charm.

  Thank you!

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