sourceText.split problem

[Chris Scalzo]

in a range selector, I have the following code on a color amount. If the 10th word starts with an “s” or S”, I want it to change the color.

The problem, is if a word before it has 2 spaces before it. It advances the split count; however, the range selector that doesn’t count the double space as a word. (so word 10 is now at text.sourceText.split(” “)[11])

Anyone have any idea of a workaround?

y=text.sourceText.split(" ")[10][0];
if ((y == "s") || (y == "S")) 100 else 0

[Chris Scalzo]

I found my workaround in this post from the great Dan couple years ago.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/227/33812

Answer: expression selectors.

[Dan Ebberts]

Try it this way:

txt = text.sourceText.replace(/ +(?= )/g,”);
y=txt.split(” “)[10][0];
if ((y == “s”) || (y == “S”)) 100 else 0

Dan