Need to customize Dan’s Counter Expressions script

[Dan Ebberts]

I haven’t tested it, but you should be able to change the last part to something like this:

prefix = thisComp.layer(“prefixArray”).transform.opacity > 0 ? prefixArray[j] : “”;
suffix = thisComp.layer(“suffixArray”).transform.opacity > 0 ? suffixArray[j] : “”;
x=x + prefix + outStr + decimalSeparator + myArray[j].substr(valLength-Ndecimals) + suffix + “\r”
}
}

Dan

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Thanks Dan, I actually got it to work by inserting the if ..then conditionals before the last line of your code I posted. However, I needed four lines of code to cover each of the four possible permutations.

I also used
prefix = thisComp.layer("prefixArray").enabled ==1 as my condition.

Your solution works and is of course a lot more elegant. Can you explain what this part

? prefixArray[j] : "";

of your script does?

Thanks
RoRK
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[Dan Ebberts]

It’s just a compact form of if/else.

This:

prefix = thisComp.layer(“prefixArray”).transform.opacity > 0 ? prefixArray[j] : “”;

is equivalent to this:

if (thisComp.layer(“prefixArray”).transform.opacity > 0)
prefix = prefixArray[j]
else
prefix = “”;

Dan

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

AWESOME Dan!!! That’s an incredibly handy shortcut!

Cheers
RoRK
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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Hi Dan, I’ve hit a snag. I’m getting unwanted results with negative values. Here’s the script again –

var x ="" ;
for (j=0; j<12; j++)
{
valLength = myArray[j].length;
var s = myArray[j];

if (commas){
decimals = " ";
if (Ndecimals > 0){
var decimals = s.substr(-(Ndecimals + 1));
s = s.substr(0,s.length - (Ndecimals + 1));
}
outStr = s.substr(-s.length, (s.length-1)%3 +1);
for (i = Math.floor((s.length-1)/3); i > 0; i--){
outStr += thousandSeparator + s.substr(-i*3,3);
}
prefix = comp("Enter Textual Data Here - MultiSegment Bar").layer("Controller").effect("Use Prefix")("Checkbox") ==1 ? prefixArray[j] : "";
suffix = comp("Enter Textual Data Here - MultiSegment Bar").layer("Controller").effect("Use Suffix")("Checkbox") ==1 ? suffixArray[j] : "";
x=x + prefix + outStr + decimalSeparator + myArray[j].substr(valLength-Ndecimals) + suffix + "\r";
}
}

When the input value is -700.00, I get the following result $-,700.00. I was hoping to get -$700.00.

For 4-digit numbers, if the input is -1500, I get the following result $-1,500.00. For a 5-digit number such as -70,000, I get $-70,000.00.

TIA
RoRK
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