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Passing layer sourceText into double quotes of an expression?
I’m building a template to display data from a csv. The user will type the name of a column into a text layer, and this string is passed into the expression to display data from this column. However I can’t figure out how to pass the sourceText of the text layer into the csv reference expression. I suspect I’m just using double and single quote wrong, but can’t seem to get it. Any idea how to pass a string into the double quotes of an expression?
colName = thisComp.layer("Type Col Name Here").text.sourceText;
thisComp.layer("Population2019.csv")("Data")("Outline")("'colName'")("'colName'" + " 0").value); -
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Hi Andrew,
No quotes for variables my friend ?
colName = thisComp.layer("Type Col Name Here").text.sourceText;
thisComp.layer("Population2019.csv")("Data")("Outline")(colName)(colName + " 0").value); -
I see. The final expression referencing the CSV seems to need quotes to navigate the data tree. When I try with and without quotes I get an error though. :-/ Here’s a screenshot of a stripped version of this section of the project:
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Oh! Nevermind. After removing the quotes from the source text and fiddling with how I was adding the space+i I was able to get it. For anyone who find this with a similar question, here’s a screenshot of the final code that’s working:
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