[Franck Michel]

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.

[Franck Michel]

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 letters, even the “s” turns red but the ‘ stays black.

Do you think there is a way to tell After Effects to check that the ponctuation is at the end of word with a space after it to let it be black, but if it’s followed by a letter to integrate it and turn it red?

This might be a little too much but if you have an idea I am all ears.

Thanks again.

[Franck Michel]

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.

[Franck Michel]

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 I have loads of texts to process and it’s 2 AM 😉

Thanks again

[Franck Michel]

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.