Returning the same text from an old layer, on a new layer, minus the final line

[Tim Johnson]

Hi!

I’m fairly new to expressions and I’m not exactly sure how to proceed with this.

I’d like my new text layer to contain the exact same text as another layer in the same comp, but without the last line.

Here is the error message:

Object of type TextProperty found where Number, Array or Property is needed

I was under the impression that tex.split() turns text into an array? Maybe I’m mistaken.

Any help is much appreciated 🙂

s = thisComp.layer("Same text, But without The final line"); //original layer
o = thisLayer // new layer
sourceTxt = s.text.sourceText; // original text
newTxt = o.text.sourceText; // new text
lineSplitTxt = sourceTxt.split("\r"); // splits the original text by line
lastLine = lineSplitTxt[lineSplitTxt.length-1]; // returns the last line of original text

newTxt = sourceTxt -= lastLine // I want new text layer to be same as original WITHOUT the last line

[Dan Ebberts]

This should work:


inText = thisComp.layer("Same text, But without The final line").text.sourceText;
splitText = inText.split("\r");
outText = "";
for (i = 0; i < splitText.length-1;i++){
outText += (i == 0 ? "" : "\r") + splitText[i];
}
outText


Dan

[Andrei Popa]

Sholdn’t this be faster and easier?

sourceText= thisComp.layer("Same text, But without The final line").text.sourceText;
sourceText.split("\r").slice(0,-1).join("\r")

Andrei
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