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31-01-2006
, 05:49 PM
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String manipulation
basically my plan is to do an "ls" command then iterate through the list until I find a string that starts with "chr:_"
then for each match, I need to build a list of distinct character names. I already know what the control names are so I don't need to worry about that. That distinct list would populate a drop down menu which allows the animator to choose which character he wants to work on.
For example, an animator opens a scene and it has 2 characters in it.
chr:_ykv01
and
chr:_man2
I need to be able to populate a drop down menu with ykv01 and man2
any clue on how to do this?
thanks
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01-02-2006
, 05:38 PM
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string $myArray = `ls "chr:*"`;
for($a in $myArray)
{
print ("a: " + $a + \n");
//do whatever you want here
}
I'd be carefull using ":" in names though as they are used for namespaces.
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