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# 1 31-01-2006 , 05:49 PM

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every control for a character has this naming format: "chr:_" + character's name + ":" + the control's name

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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# 2 01-02-2006 , 05:38 PM

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why not just do

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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