Re: Can an expression acknowledge the Comp's name?

[Bert Brown] "so for example i have a comp name:

PRIMEHD_P2_L2_TSS

and I want the expression to look for the number after that "L" and adjust a slider number (BAR LENGTH SLIDER) to match that digit. in this case "2""

I think this should get you most of the way there:


n = thisComp.name;
a = n.split("_");


a will be an array with the following values:


a[0] = PRIMEHD
a[1] = P2
a[2] = L2
a[3] = TSS

So to get the digit in a[2] you could use:

dig = a[2].charAt(1) * 1; //multiply by one to convert character to an integer

I haven't tested this but I believe it should work.

Darby Edelen