• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Point slider form comma’s to dots?

  Posted by Olaf van Egeraat on November 12, 2020 at 4:32 pm

  Hello Creative cows,

  I have a question regarding my timer: it works perfectly fine but I want it to have a decimal points where the comma’s are. I’m still figuring everything out with point control.

  Online I always see it the other way around: from points to comma’s.

  Does anyone know how to add code to it changes it?

  s = “” + Math.round(effect(“Point Control”)(“Point”)[0]);

  s.replace(/\B(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, “,”);

  

  Olaf van Egeraat replied 5 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

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  Brendon Murphy

  November 13, 2020 at 7:30 pm

  I can’t understand from your post what you are trying to do with the point control, but you can replace commas in text with periods like this:

  s = value; //some text with commas
  s.replace(/,/g, ".");  //replace the commas

  If your source for s is a number, you may need to convert it to a string first using the toString() method.
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  Filip Vandueren

  November 14, 2020 at 1:54 pm

  Hi Olaf,

  in the new Javascript engine you can do this:

  num = 123456789.012;
  num.toLocaleString('nl');

  this will give you dutch nl style numbers: 123.456.789,012

  change it to ‘en’ for the english style: 123,456,789.012

  ‘ru’ for russian style: 123 456 789,012

  ‘gu’ for gujarati: 12,34,56,789.012

  ‘fa’ for farsi: 123٬456٬789٫012 (won’t show up correctly: superscript commas for thousands)

  etc.

  Much better and robust than using string replacements
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  Olaf van Egeraat

  November 19, 2020 at 9:41 am

  Thanks! It’s a count-up form 0 to 5 million 🙂
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  Olaf van Egeraat

  November 19, 2020 at 10:19 am

  Hey Filip: do i add this to the expression of the point control of the source text itself?

  It makes to animation of 0 – 5 million completely quit.

  if I add to to code above (source text)

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