How do I change the color of two words in my source text.

Question

Hey there, I have a great little expression that generates a sentenance. compName = thisComp.name;
textBefore = "The amount totals to ";
textAfter = ".";
textBefore+compName.substring(0, compName.indexOf("-"))+textAfter;The amount totals to five.How do I change the color of the compName and textAfter values?I

Mylenium · Answer

You don't. These are not scriptable with source text expressions. You will have to apply a text animator for Fill color, which in fact per your example would be the simplest solution, anyway, by setting it to per word and adjusting the range settings to always cover that last word. More complex string manipulation may of course require a different approach involving an expression selector or soem such thing, but give this a whirl as a start.

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