Swipe direction selects animations

Hello,

I'm creating a game intended for mobile. I need the character to follow the direction of the players finger when swiping left or right. I want the animation to change from the default to a different animation when swiping left and to yet another animation if the player is swiping right.

Any tips?

As always, thanks in advance.

Maybe take down the X coordinate as variable "StartTouchX" of the touch on the touch trigger, then have a second variable as "EndTouchX" and update that every tick until a "touch end" is triggered?

Thanks for the reply.

But how would I then tell it to select a specific animation while it's updating? Would I have 4 variables - startTouchXLeft/endTouchXLeft and startTouchXRight/endTouchXRight?