An expression to colour specific words in text

[Miguel De mendoza]

You can not change the color of specific characters in a text layer.

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Add Fill color animator with twitter blue and an expression selector (based on words) to the text. Then use this expression:

words = text.sourceText.split(" ");
currentWord = words[textIndex-1];
if(currentWord.charAt(0)=="@"){color=100}else{color = 0};
[color,color,color]

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Daniel Casey]

Hi Kalleheikki,

Thanks, this has been a huge help.

Is there a way to modify this so that it can colour multiple words that start with @ in the same block of text?

Thanks
Dan

[Daniel Casey]

Ignore the previous Email, multiple words do work.

[Alborz Riazi]

Nearly two years after you posted this, it helped me loads. Thanks a million for the great expression.