Total character in text

[Emre Anil]

Are you sure that “.length” is the problem?
Your code seems perfectly working..

Did you change the slider effect’s name to “Slider” or is it the default “Slider Control”?

[Ilya Sire]

Yes the code is corrent, my goal to display a character count as slider animate count word “Japanese” to (number slider value / total char).
it will be 0 to 8 / 8.

but length wont take the total of text.

[Emre Anil]

Now I get it.. you want to display as “current/total”

For the actual text layer, use a text animator for opacity (set to 0) and change range units to “Index”
Connect “Start” of range animator to your Slider with expression:
thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider")("Slider")
Add this expression to “End” of range animator to set it to the text’s length:
text.sourceText.length

For the counter text add the following expression to source text:

t = thisComp.layer("JAPANESE").text.sourceText.length;
i = Math.round(thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider")("Slider"));
if(i>t){
i=t;
i + "/" + t;
}
else if (i<0){
i=0;
i + "/" + t;
}
else
i + "/" + t


[Ilya Sire]

That works beautifully, Emre Anil
Thanks so much for your help!