• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Text Contained Within String

  Posted by Mike LeBel on August 18, 2020 at 7:13 am

  I’d like to write an IF statement that can look at text in a string (MyString) to determine if a word is contained or found within the string.

  Below is the simplest example I could make up on this question. I know this won’t work but I’m trying to figure out the language.

  Is it possible to search for text within it?
  Thanks.

  MyString = "This is my text"
if (MyString.contains("my") "Yes" else "Nope"

  Andrei Popa replied 5 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  Scott Mcgee

  August 18, 2020 at 8:08 am

  MyString = “This is my text”
  if (MyString.indexOf(“my”)) “Yes” else “Nope”

  You were missing a closing bracket, but you use indexOf() not contains. Unless someone corrects me. Eitherway the above will work for you.
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  Andrei Popa

  August 18, 2020 at 8:16 am

  Here to correct and annoy people ?

  In case indexOf() does not find a value, it returns -1. -1 is truthy, so this always returns Yes.
  In case he intends to use this in the new expression engine, else does not work on the same line with if.

  
MyString = "This is my text"
if (MyString.indexOf("my")!=-1) "Yes"
else "Nope"


  Andrei
  My Envato portfolio.
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  Scott Mcgee

  August 18, 2020 at 12:01 pm

  Ah yes, my bad. Can’t believe I missed that bit. Hahaha
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  Mike LeBel

  August 18, 2020 at 2:11 pm

  This was all super helpful. I’m also beginning to understand more how to search for things and key words on creative cow. Thank you!!
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  Andrei Popa

  August 18, 2020 at 2:55 pm

  About searching things better. Here is what I suggest:

  You need to learn few keywords like string, number, array.
  Then search what you want to find out with javascript.
  For example, searching “find a word in string javascript” returns 2 results from w3schools which both could of helped you ;D

  Andrei
  My Envato portfolio.

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