[Matt Dernlan]

Well I am clearly out of my depth here with curly vs straight. So in my expressions, I’m using all straight quotes, but I need to match back to curly somehow? The ideal would be to be able to match to curly, since that is apparently the default, so if someone types a quote into that layer, it would match back without special formatting needed.

Or would there be a way to automatically change the quotes to straight? I’m already changing everything to lowercase at the moment just for matching purposes.

I’ll do a little googling but curly vs straight is never something I’ve run into.

[Matt Dernlan]

Sure, sorry about the delay.

Also, sorry about the string….. it’s for testing purposes, and you know how you can go a little crazy 40 lines in…

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abc, 123, ba”aaaby 🙂 you and me gurl!
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Just copied and pasted that straight out of the text layer in AE.

[Matt Dernlan]

Hmm… when I do that, I don’t receive an error, but my output is 0, which is the final “else” in my if/else statement. It’s as if it’s recognizing that it’s valid, but not returning the correct value.

I should add that it is comparing to literally one character at a time. So it is looking at just a set of quotation marks, or just one letter, so there shouldn’t be much room for error. I’m doing this using offset and pointing a variable to a layer’s source text that is displaying just the one letter at a time.

I could copy all the code in here, but I have lots of layers involved that depend on each other, so I thought it would be easier to understand by breaking it down to basics. If you need more information please let me know.

Matt