Change Color of text inside parenthesis

[Andrei Popa]

I’m not that good with regular expressions, but i remembered this post of Oleg Pirogov and after few searches on Stack Overflow i came up with this. Worked on my test. I used two occurences, one with space and one without.

So add a text animator, fill color, rgb. To this animator add selector>expression. In the expression field write this:

var t = text.sourceText;
var regex = /\(([^)]+)(?=\))/g;

function indexMatched(index){
var matched = false;
var match;
var i=[];

while ((match = regex.exec(t)) !== null){
matched |= match.index

Andrei
My Envato portfolio.

[Andrei Popa]

Without the i part…

var t = text.sourceText;
var regex = /\(([^)]+)(?=\))/g;

function indexMatched(index){
var matched = false;
var match;

while ((match = regex.exec(t)) !== null){
matched |= match.index

Andrei
My Envato portfolio.

[Raj Sha]

Thank You for taking time out and replying Andrei.

I tried your code and it gives me this error.

Can you help?

[Andrei Popa]

I am pretty sure you put the expression where it was not supposed to be.

Here is a short screen rec.
13527_tutorial.mp4.zip

Andrei
My Envato portfolio.

[Raj Sha]

Thank You Andrei!!

You were correct, I was pasting the expression at some place else.

So this fixes the problem for first occurrence of parenthesis. But for second parenthesis, it moves the red color to the next character and then to next character if there are more parenthesis.

Attaching Screenshot.

[Andrei Popa]

That is because the amount selector does not count the enters at the end of the line. This works for multiple paratheses, as long as they are only on the first line or in a textbox. I can’t think of a solution right now. The best i can come up with is split into multiple layers so you don’t need to use enter before any paratheses.

Andrei
My Envato portfolio.

[Raj Sha]

Thank You Andrei for all your support and help!! ☺

I will wait for someone to reply, if they can come up with any solution or will split my text into multiple layers.

Thank You once again ☺
Rajat

[Andrei Popa]

Nvm, i got this. The kind of problem that does not go out of your head…

var t = text.sourceText;
var splitText = t.split("\r");
var regex = /\(([^)]+)(?=\))/g;

function indexMatched(index){
var matched = false;
var match;
while ((match = regex.exec(t)) !== null){
matched |= match.index<index & index<match.index+match[0].length;
}
return matched;
}

function placeInLines(index){
i=0;
maxIndex = 0;
while(index>maxIndex){
maxIndex += splitText[i].length;
i+=1;
}
return i-2;
}

indexMatched(textIndex+placeInLines(textIndex)) ? 100 : 0;

Still, i think there are better solutions. I would like to see someone solve this in a more elegant manner.

Andrei
My Envato portfolio.

[Raj Sha]

Yay!!

Exactly what I was looking for.

Thank You So So Much Andrei. God Bless You!!

I am pretty sure many more people will be looking for exactly same thing. You have helped us all.

Thank You once again for all your support and time.

Cheers!! 🙂

[Raj Sha]

Hello Everyone,

I am really sorry, but I forgot to mention that the word inside parentheses should also turn italics?

Is this achievable?

Thanks in Advance!