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    After Effects 2019 Data-driven Expression- Sort text with corresponding number data
  
        
  
    
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  | var examples = [ | |
| { | |
| 'text' : thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Text Data")("Text Data 0"), | |
| 'number' : parseInt(thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Number Data")("Number Data 0")) | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| 'text' : thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Text Data")("Text Data 1"), | |
| 'number' : parseInt(thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Number Data")("Number Data 1")) | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| 'text' : thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Text Data")("Text Data 2"), | |
| 'number' : parseInt(thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Number Data")("Number Data 2")) | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| 'text' : thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Text Data")("Text Data 3"), | |
| 'number' : parseInt(thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Number Data")("Number Data 3")) | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| 'text' : thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Text Data")("Text Data 4"), | |
| 'number' : parseInt(thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Number Data")("Number Data 4")) | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| 'text' : thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Text Data")("Text Data 5"), | |
| 'number' : parseInt(thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Number Data")("Number Data 5")) | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| 'text' : thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Text Data")("Text Data 6"), | |
| 'number' : parseInt(thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Number Data")("Number Data 6")) | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| 'text' : thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Text Data")("Text Data 7"), | |
| 'number' : parseInt(thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Number Data")("Number Data 7")) | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| 'text' : thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Text Data")("Text Data 8"), | |
| 'number' : parseInt(thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Number Data")("Number Data 8")) | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| 'text' : thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Text Data")("Text Data 9"), | |
| 'number' : parseInt(thisComp.layer("Data-Driven-Sample.csv")("Data")("Outline")("Number Data")("Number Data 9")) | |
| }, | |
| ]; | |
| const list = examples.sort((a,b) => b.number-a.number).map((examples, number, array) => examples.text) | |
| list.join("\n") | 
  
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Thanks for that, the code was written before the big Javascript update and I'm not super great at code lol. I appreciate you taking the time to write this out for anyone else interested in data-driven expressions!