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# 1 09-06-2012 , 08:39 PM

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Starting to experiment with MEL scripting to automate some repetitive, brain killing operations.

Is there a limitation to the number of items that can be placed into an array using "ls -selection"?
string $arrayOfObjects[];
$arrayOfObjects = `ls -selection`;

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# 2 09-06-2012 , 08:43 PM

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I doubt it... you'll probably run out of memory for your scene before you run out of memory in the list... haha.

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# 3 10-06-2012 , 01:32 AM

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Hi PixalZA, no; there is no limit to my knowledge. If there is, I haven't hit it yet :p

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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# 4 10-06-2012 , 04:05 PM

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Thank you all. What had me ask the question was the resultset that was returned to me for a set of selected vertices.

A 10x10 polyplane returned a vertices list of just pPlane1.vtx[0:120]. I expected 121 entries and not the abbreviated version(Vertex 0 to 120).

But I got sorted out. Adding -fl returns a discreet list of individual entries.

@stwert Knowing me I'll end up coding an infinite loop that will blow the memory user added image

(I've killed a mainframe with it before so I'm sure I can do it again)

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# 5 10-06-2012 , 07:25 PM

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@stwert Knowing me I'll end up coding an infinite loop that will blow the memory (I've killed a mainframe with it before so I'm sure I can do it again)

Originally Posted by PixalZA