Why doesn’t the AE Numbers plug-in have commas???

[Declan Smith]

Nick

I will put this in a code section as I think the COW has been stripping bits off, but the basic answer to your question is that javascript is lacking in number format area and you have to write your own function for it. I have got your expression down to a one liner for you. If you want to do the same format to another number, first make sure your number is a string, then add from the .replace part as below: I have cut & pasted and tested this so it should work for you


(effect("Slider Control")("Slider").value.toFixed(0)+" Miles").replace(/(d)(?=(d{3})+(?!d))/g, "$1,");


Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
FCS3 / After Effects CS5 / Combustion / Canon 7D / Canon XL2

[Declan Smith]


(effect("Slider Control")("Slider").value.toFixed(0)+" Miles").replace(/(\d)(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, "$1,");

Last attempt above to get the cow to insert backslashes. Everytime you see a d above put a backslash before it if backslashes are not being displayed.

It should look like this:

Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS5.5/ FCS3 / Canon 7D / Canon XL2 / Reason / Cubase

[Nick Natteau]

Hi Declan,

Thank you so much! I really appreciate your help.

[Nick Natteau]

Hi Decan,

One more question. If this number were a currency instead of a distance and i wanted the “$” symbol before instead of after the number, where in the expression would the “$” symbol have to go to be before rather than after the number?

Thanks again so much for helping me out with this.

[Declan Smith]

Hi

You would put the currency symbol before the expression. I have shown this below, and shown it more verbosely in the second example.


"$" + (effect("Slider Control")("Slider").value.toFixed(0)).replace(/(\d)(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, "$1,");


In the fragment below, number is a variable that takes the numeric value from the slider. The other variable names should be self explanatory and are all strings.
The last line shows how they are concatenated together.


number = effect("Slider Control")("Slider").value;
numberFormatted = number.toFixed(0);
numberFormattedAsStringWithCommas = (numberFormatted + '').replace(/(\d)(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, "$1,");
prefix="$";

prefix + numberFormattedAsStringWithCommas;


Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS5.5/ FCS3 / Canon 7D / Canon XL2 / Reason / Cubase

[Nick Natteau]

Hi Declan,

If I might just ask you another follow up question regarding the numbers effect.

I’m doing this for a documentary film about Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany when the Reichmark went from 12 Rm to the dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 Rm.

So my problem now is that in AE the number seems to stop at 1,000,000. How do I get past this??? I’m sure there’s a way but i can’t figure out. Thank you very much in advance.

[Declan Smith]

I think that is a hard limit of the slider control. Not quite sure what you are doing, but I guess you are keyframing the value or something. You could use a “Point Control” instead of a slider and just use one of the dimensions if you are trying to store the numbeer e.g

replace

effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”)

with

effect(“Point Control”)(“Point”)[0]

The full expression would then become:


"$" + (effect("Point Control")("Point")[0].value.toFixed(0)).replace(/(\d)(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, "$1,");


Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS5.5/ FCS3 / Canon 7D / Canon XL2 / Reason / Cubase

[Nick Natteau]

Hi Declan,

Sorry but I can’t get it to work. I just copy and pasted your last line exactly as you had it and now nothing appears:

“$” + (effect(“Point Control”)(“Point”)[0].value.toFixed(0)).replace(/(d)(?=(d{3})+(?!d))/g, “$1,”);

[Declan Smith]

Nick,

Sorry, would have help if I had pasted a valid expression 😉

Try this. I have also included the screen shot in case the characters get corrupted:


"$" + (effect("Point Control")("Point")[0].toFixed(0)).replace(/(\d)(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, "$1,");


Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS5.5/ FCS3 / Canon 7D / Canon XL2 / Reason / Cubase

[Nick Natteau]

Hi Declan,

Sorry to keep bothering you like this. But my final question: how would I ramp up my numbers in speed.

For example in my animation I have to show the Reichsmark hyperinflation increasing from
$1=12 Rm in 1919 to $1=17,000 Rm by 1923…

But in 1923 it increases dramatically from $1=17,000 Rm in Jan 1923 to $1=4,200,000,000 by Dec 1923

So I would need my numbers to ramp up in speed dramatically. Does this require another expression???