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  Parse a specific line of text

  Posted by Jeremy Wick on February 10, 2022 at 11:36 pm

  Any ideas how I could parse a specific line from a multi-line text layer?

  This is
some example
text.

  line 2 = "some example"

  Tomas Bumbulevičius replied 4 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Tomas Bumbulevičius

  February 11, 2022 at 11:02 am

  Hey Jeremy, splitting the text by return carriage and picking the line from array.

  var myString = “This is \n some example \n text”;
  var splitArray = myString.split(“\n”);

  splitArray makes your string as [“This is”, “some example”, “text”]

  If you know exactly which line is required, then accessing it by splitArray[X] will do it.

  Where X – index of line in an array (keep in mind arrays starts from 0, not 1)

  So in your given example line2 would be splitArray[1]

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