• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Counting specific layers from above the current layer?

  Posted by Kyung Ko on February 4, 2020 at 11:44 pm

  Hello,

  I have many text layers mixed with the other type of layers, and the main text layer, L1 is in the middle.
  So basically I would like to count the number of text layers that include “title” in the text field only from the layers above the L1 layer and print it out to L1 layer.

  Thanks for your help! 🙂

  Kyung Ko replied 6 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Dan Ebberts

  February 5, 2020 at 12:30 am

  Something like this should work:

  
count = 0;
for (i = 1; i < index; i++){
L = thisComp.layer(i);
try{
if (L.text.sourceText.value.indexOf("title") > -1) count++;
}catch(e){
}
}
count


  Dan
• 

  Kyung Ko

  February 5, 2020 at 3:08 pm

  Thanks so much Dan!! This solved the problem I tried to get for hours.

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