Number of characters on each line in a paragraph layer

[Trent Armstrong]

Andrei,

Maybe this will get you started. I copied/pasted your text and actually inserted carriage returns at the end of each line. The carriage return—or “\r”—is important to how this expression works. (Maybe someone else knows if AE can read automatic line breaks, but I don’t think it does.) This expression just returns the number of characters per line on the respective line.

I’m not exactly sure what you’re going for, but this might get you headed in the right direction.

var txt = text.sourceText.split(“\r”);

n = txt.length;

list = [];

var t = “”;

for (i=0; i<n; i++) {

t = txt[i];

t = t.length;

list.push(t + “\r”);

}

list

Trent

[Andrei Popa]

Hi Trent. Thanks for the answer. I was not clear enough. My text is a boxText and the linbreaks are the one created by AE. I don’t know of any expression to identify those end of lines, that can be used in .split(). I guess that is kind of what I hoped to exist, an expression to identify those automatic line breaks.