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I need text to break after a set number of characters
I’m creating a series of titles, they all need to have the same background, so I’m duplicating a comp several times and then changing the text layer.
Since I have to do this several times I thought of using thisComp.name on the text layer so I don’t have to go into each comp to change the text.
The problem is the titles are fairly long, so I need the line to break after a few characters, for example:
Data enriquecida
de cada transacciónas opposed to
Data enriquecida de cada transacción
I tried the expression pasted below, but although is not showing an error, it’s not working.
Can anyone help me tweak it?Thanks in advance.
D.txt=thisComp.name;
i=0;
if (txt.length % 16==0)
{
txt += "\r";
i++;
}
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6 Replies
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More like this, I think:
txt=thisComp.name;
maxChars = 16;
str = txt.substr(0,maxChars);
i = maxChars;
while (i < txt.length){
str += "\r" + txt.substr(i,maxChars);
i += maxChars;
}
str
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Thanks a lot Dan,
It works perfectly.
I’m not even going to pretend I understand what’s going on here.My idea turned out to be not so great after all, as I still need to go into each comp and change the length of the string on each expression, so I wasn’t able to avoid having to click on each comp individually.
Still, a great expression which I’ll study and try to understand, maybe one day I’ll get it.
Best,
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>I still need to go into each comp and change the length of the string on each expression
So that it breaks on a word boundary?
Dan
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Yes. If not it will break at a random letter, well, not random, but obviously it won’t be the same character on each headline.
Best,
D. -
It gets a lot more complicated, but I think this should be close:
txt = thisComp.name.split(" ");
maxChars = 16;
str = line = "";
for (i = 0; i < txt.length; i++){
if ((line + ((line.length > 0) ? " " : "") + txt[i]).length > maxChars){
str += ((str != "") ? "\r" : "") + line;
line = txt[i];
}else{
line += ((line != "") ? " " : "") + txt[i];
}
}
if (line != ""){
str += ((str != "") ? "\r" : "") + line;
}
str
Dan
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Once more, thanks a lot for taking the time to look into this. This is amazing, pure sorcery.
I added an slider control so now it’s super easy to adjust the max characters.I’m very grateful Dan.
Best,
D.txt = thisComp.name.split(" ");
maxChars = effect("maxChars")("Slider");
str = line = "";
for (i = 0; i < txt.length; i++){
if ((line + ((line.length > 0) ? " " : "") + txt[i]).length > maxChars){
str += ((str != "") ? "\r" : "") + line;
line = txt[i];
}else{
line += ((line != "") ? " " : "") + txt[i];
}
}
if (line != ""){
str += ((str != "") ? "\r" : "") + line;
}
str
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