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How to remove the first three characters from a string and display the rest?
Hi All,
I’m making a score sheet to display: Position and Runner Name.
There is a main Comp called “Event_Name” and within this there are several Comps called:
“01 Runner Name”
“02 Runner Name”
“03…”So for I’ve got the position and the runner name to show, See below
the_place = comp(“Event_Name”).layer(thisComp.name).index;
the_name = comp(“Event_Name”).layer(thisComp.name).name ;
divider = ” ” ;
the_place + divider + the_nameIn line [2] the name of the comp is what I want to be displayed. However, in order to keep these layers in order in the project window and the “Event_Name” comp I have to name them as such:
01 Runner Name
02 Runner Name
03…What I need to do in line [4] is just display the ‘Runner Name’ but without the first 3 characters I.E. “01 “.
So I need to remove the first 3 characters and display the rest – NOTE: Comp Names are all different lengths 🙁Cheers,
Dave.
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2 Replies
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Strings have a slice method: .slice(m,n)
It removes the first m characters, keeps m-n, and removes the rest.
the second parameter is optionnal so if n is not specified, .slice(m) removes the first m characters and keeps the rest.so maybe you can replace line[4] by
the_place + divider + the_name.slice(3)
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Xavier
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PERFECT!!! EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED!
Thank you Soooooo Much Xavier
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