• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Alternative to “\r”

  Posted by Jeremy Wick on March 28, 2022 at 11:00 pm

  I’m working on a script that adds an expression to the source text which includes several instances of “\r”. Unfortunately, this causes a line break in the expression code itself (omitting the actual “\r”).

  Is there an alternative way to write “\r”? (similar to “&” in html)

  Dan Ebberts replied 4 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Dan Ebberts

  March 28, 2022 at 11:32 pm

  I think you just have to double escape it with a double back slash:

  var myProp = app.project.activeItem.layer(1).property("Text").property("Source Text");
  var myExpr = '"This is a\\rmulti-line test."';
  myProp.expression = myExpr;

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