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How to add “.” or “,” in a number inside a text layer
Hi there! What I wanna do is for example to make 8000 become 8.000 inside a text layer. Or 58123645 become 58.123.645 (in Brazil, we use “.”, maybe in USA or other countries “,” is used, but anyway…).
I have this in my Source Text (similar to Universal Counter tutorial, from Dan https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/counter.html):
vMin = 0; //minimum value
vMax = 58123645; //maximum value
dur = 11; //duration
d = 0; //number of decimalslinear (time, inPoint, dur, vMin, vMax).toFixed(d)
But the problem is that there are no “.” (or “,”) added in each 3 numbers. I tried tried tried and I could not find a way to add “.” automatically.
Could anyone help me?
Thaks a lot!
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5 Replies
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Here’s a discussion we had a few months ago:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_thread.cgi?forumid=2&postid=880630&univpostid=880128
use the final expression, but read all of it, there’s some interesting stuff about the limitation of slider-controls for high numbers
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Hmm, nice. My friend gave me something I never saw before:
function addPoint(numTxt) {
numTxt = String(numTxt);
regEx = /^(.*\s)?([+-]?\d+)(\d{3}\b)/;
return numTxt == (numTxt = numTxt.replace(regEx, “$1$2,$3”)) ? numTxt : addPoint(numTxt);
}This worked fine to do what I wanted, but I almost died when I saw that.
It works like this, in a source text:function addPoint(numTxt) {
numTxt = String(numTxt);
regEx = /^(.*\s)?([+-]?\d+)(\d{3}\b)/;
return numTxt == (numTxt = numTxt.replace(regEx, “$1$2,$3”)) ? numTxt : addPoint(numTxt);
}addPoint (56448646455646848668)
You are done!
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Nice !
Clever stuff using regexp…
And I like the recursion going on in the return statement: have to add that to my bag of tricks. -
Do you know any place in the Internet with info or even tutorials about this?
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Looking in Google, I found this nice site: https://www.regular-expressions.info/
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