Сount the number of words in a text

[Dan Ebberts]

How about this:

txt=text.sourceText.value;
valAry = txt.replace(/\s+$/g,"").split(" ");
valAry.length

[Alex Andry]

Thanks Dan, it works!

[Alex Andry]

Dan, can this expression be modified to make a text row calculation?

[Filip Vandueren]

If you mean, count the number of lines broken off by hard and soft returns:

txt = thisComp.layer("txt").text.sourceText;
txt.split(/\r\n?|\n|\3/g).length

If you need the number of lines that are being wrapped in a paragraph box, not by eneterd linebreaks: that’s harder.
If all the paragraph-space-before and -after margins are at 0, and if the leading and fontsize is consistent across the whole text, and if all the lines are visible, and if you don’t care about empty lines at start or finish… (yes that’s a lot ifs) then it can (usually) be calculated by:

txt = thisComp.layer("txt").text.sourceText;
ld = txt.style.autoLeading ? txt.style.fontSize*1.2 : txt.style.leading;
Math.round(thisComp.layer("txt").sourceRectAtTime().height/(ld));

But this can break with fonts like Zapfino that may have extravagant Swashes that are much much larger than the font’s x-height.

[Alex Andry]

Thanks a lot Philip, both expressions work great! I am grateful for your help and Dan’s help!