• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Select specified character (example:second character) in a Text

  Posted by Aimee Brown on September 4, 2019 at 7:54 am

  I would like to be able to select a specified character in a text layer.
  It’s just for a simple if/else expression, but I don’t know how to pick out specific characters

  Thanks!

  if (thisComp.layer("Text 1").text.sourceText(index-1) == "e")
100
else
0

  Aimee Brown replied 7 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Andrei Popa

  September 4, 2019 at 11:04 am

  myIndex = 3;
  if (thisComp.layer(“Text 1”).text.sourceText.split(“”)[myIndex-1] == “e”)
  100
  else
  0

  Andrei
  My Envato portfolio.
• 

  Aimee Brown

  September 4, 2019 at 11:10 am

  Thanks.
  I couldn’t find my post after I posted it, and I found a different solution. This is more what I was looking for (in case anyone else has the same query).

  if (thisComp.layer(“Text 1”).text.sourceText[1] == “e”)
  100
  else
  0

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