Can I animate / keyframe the text that becomes before and/or after a counting number expression?

Question

I'm following this tutorial video to animate a counting number with a slider effect and some preceding and following text.

The expression I have currently:

"~"+effect("Slider Control")("Slider").value.toFixed(0)+" million"

The "~" before and the " million" I also need to be able to keyframe and change the text, how can I do this?

I've tried using dummy text layers and tried to pickwhip their source text but that didn't work.

production152024797 · Accepted Answer

Thank you very much Mylenium!For my purposes I actually ended up using the source text of dummy layers, maybe it's a little clunky but it works for what I need - i just needed to remove the quote marks and the following expression worked with my dummy layers: thisComp.layer("~").text.sourceText+effect("Slider Control")("Slider").value.toFixed(0)+thisComp.layer(" million").text.sourceText If i have a more complex need in the future though i will try your seemingly more elegant solution. &#128578;

Mylenium · Answer

You could put them in an array and then address that either automatically based on the value or via sliders. Your code would look something like that:

mNum=effect("Animated Value")("Slider");
mEnd=effect("End Value")("Slider");
mUni=["thousand","million","billion"];
mPre=["~","="];

if (mNum.length <= 4)
{mUni=mUni[0]}
else if (mNum.length <= 7)
{mUni=mUni[1]}
else
{muni=mUni[2]};

if(mNum < mEnd)
{mPre=mPre[0]}
else
{mPre=mPre[1]};

mPre+mNum.toFixed(0)+" "+mUni

Mylenium

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