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Been fighting with a simple text load expression for hours
Hi there, I’m trying unsuccessfully to load a simple text from a file into the source of a text box in AE. I’ve tried many formulas and path syntax with no luck.
I’ve used the following syntax in the past and it has worked.
I’m using AE CC2014 on windows 8.1.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.myPath = "/d/SPMG/legal.txt";
try{
$.evalFile (myPath);
}catch(err){
"Not found."
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4 Replies
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What’s in the file? It has to be valid expression code.
Dan
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If this is a source text expression, what’s in the file needs to be something you could copy from the file and paste it in as the expression and you would get the result you expect. So any single text line enclosed in straight quotes:
“This is a test”
or multi-line text within triple quotes:
“””This is a test
with multiple
lines”””should work.
Dan
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Oh!! It’s simple paragraph text. Does it mean I can’t use expressions to load paragraph text?
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Oh gosh!! what a terrible dead end I was in. Thanks Dan.
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