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Editing Source Text to remove a portion of the text
I’m trying to remove a timestamp from a text layer for a script I’m working on.
I can replace the text completely and I can add more text to the string, but I am having trouble finding the tools to remove certain parts of the text.
Here is the imported text. I’m trying to remove everything before the second line.
“John Doe – 4:01PM October 21st, 2019:
And Here”any help or a link to a tutorial would be greatly appreciated! I feel like it might be a real fundamental javaScript thing that I’m just not aware of.
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7 Replies
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>I’m trying to remove everything before the second line.
If that’s really what you’re trying to do, you could do it with this:
value.split(“\r”)[1]
but if what you’re after is the name from the first line and what’s in the second line, it would be more like :
s = value.split(“\r”);
idx = s[0].search(/\d/);
s[0] = s[0].substr(0,idx-3);
s.join(“\r”)Dan
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First of all:
This works Perfect!Second:
I was actually wanting to know how to do this in a script, but I forgot to mention that in my post/question. My apologies.Is there a way to do this within a script as well?
Thanks again!
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>This works Perfect!
Which one?
>Is there a way to do this within a script as well?
Sure–it’s mostly just JavaScript. If you’re talking about the second one, it would be something like this:
var s = yourText.split(“\r”);
var idx = s[0].search(/\d/);
s[0] = s[0].substr(0,idx-3);
var newText = s.join(“\r”);Dan
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The first solution worked great as an expression, but when I try to implement it into my script it doesn’t seem to understand the “split” function.
Here is the for Loop I’m using it in. “txt” is a global variable for layer 4 in my comp.
for (var i = 1; i != numberOfSourceText + 1; i++){if (txt.property("Source Text").keyValue(i)){
(txt.property("Source Text").keyValue(i).split("\r"))
}
}
It kicks back the error “Function txt.propert().keyValue().split is undefined.”
Do I need to import that functionality at the start of my script or something?
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I think the issue is that
txt.property(“Source Text”).keyValue(i)
is going to give you a text document object, not the text itself.
This should work though:
txt.property(“Source Text”).keyValue(i).text.split(“\r”)[1];
Dan
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I just remembered that in scripting, you may have to use .split(“\n”) instead of .split(“\r”)
Dan
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Thanks for the help on this one!
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