Andrei, once again you hit the bulls eye!

Your second solution works perfectly for what I have to do.

And for the occasional 2.3 case, I think it would be logical to have the . highlighted as well as the numbers.

Again, thank you so much for taking the time to help me with this expression trickery.

Hello Andrei,

I have worked integrating your great expression in my project. As I previously said it works very well.

There is only one exception that blocked me, and maybe it’s not possible to accommodate for it.

When I want to highlight a word like “that’s”, as you can imagine I would like all the letters and the ‘ to be red but as of now, the let…

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Once again thank you so much Andrei!

It’s perfect and my brain will not trip in the middle of the night.

With your explanations I am going to try to reconstruct it from scratch to learn some mechanics in play here. It will be great for my learning experience.

Andrei, thank you so much for having taken the time to find a perfect solution to my problem.

I can’t even begin to understand the expression (I will try though) but it works so well I want to hug you.

What should I change so when I type 1 in the control layer it highlights the first word and not the second?

It’s just a luxury for my poor brain when…

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I am doing a simple thing, control the color of words in a text layer using another text layer.

Thanks to a 2017 thread with a great expression by Dan Ebberts it works very well.

The only problem I have is that I would like the ponctuation to keep the original color.

As with a text like “box,” I want the word box to get the new color red but the com…

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Thank you so much Dan this is perfect and works like a charm.

I would never have thought of this in a million years, and was too stubborn to try a repetition of the condition like you did.

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to do a basic thing but can’t find how.

I want to scan a text layer for specific characters like p, q, j, y and then apply an offset position if one of them is present.

For now I found an expression that works very well for one character but I am not able to tell it to search for multiple ones.

var txt =…

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