{"id":232,"date":"2008-09-05T07:22:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2008-09-05T07:22:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T14:22:18","slug":"useful-string-expressions-mel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Useful string expressions (mel)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collection of useful string expressions for mel<\/p>\n

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 The nice name of an object from the ‘long’ path<\/p>\n

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\nstring $matchString = "|locator1|null1|pCube1";\nmatch("[^|]*$", $matchString);\n\n\/\/ Result: pCube1 \/\/<\/pre>\n
The parent of an object from the ‘long’ path<\/p>\n
\nstring $matchString = "|locator1|null1|pCube1";\nsubstitute("|[^|]*$", $matchString, "");\n\n\/\/ Result: |locator1|null1 \/\/<\/pre>\n
Match the specified attribute name of an object<\/p>\n
\nstring $matchString = "|locator1|null1|pCube1.translate";\nmatch("[^.]*$", $matchString);\n\n\/\/ Result: translate \/\/<\/pre>\n
\nstring $matchString = "|locator1|null1|pCube1.vtx[0]";\nmatch("[^.]*$", $matchString);\n\n\/\/ Result: vtx[0] \/\/<\/pre>\n
Match the nice name of an object excluding any includeded attributes<\/p>\n
\nstring $matchString = "|locator1|null1|pCube1.translate";\nmatch("[^|]*$", match("^[^.]*", $matchString));\n\n\/\/ Result: pCube1 \/\/<\/pre>\n
Match the attribute excluding any array index information<\/p>\n
\nstring $matchString = "|locator1|null1|pCube1.vtx[0]";\nmatch("[^.]*$", match("^[^[]*", $matchString));\n\n\/\/ Result: vtx \/\/<\/pre>\n
Remove trailing character (i.e Whitespace, new line, tab etc)<\/p>\n
\nstring $matchString = "text string nrt";\nsubstitute("[( ntr)]*$", $matchString, "");\n\n\/\/ Result: text string \/\/<\/pre>\n
Remove leading character (i.e Whitespace, new line, tab etc)<\/p>\n
\nstring $matchString = " nrttext string";\nsubstitute("^[( ntr)]*", $matchString, "");\n\n\/\/ Result: text string \/\/<\/pre>\n
Drive letter from path<\/p>\n
\nstring $matchString = "c:\\testdir\\subdirectoryA\/subdirectoryB\/yourFile.txt";\nmatch("^[^:]*", $matchString);\n\n\/\/ Result: c \/\/
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Full directory from path<\/p>\n
\nstring $matchString = "c:\\testdir\\subdirectoryA\/subdirectoryB\/yourFile.txt";\nsubstitute("[^(\\\/)]*$", $matchString, "");\n\n\/\/ Result: c:testdirsubdirectoryA\/subdirectoryB\/ \/\/<\/pre>\n
Full filename from path<\/p>\n
\nstring $matchString = "c:\\testdir\\subdirectoryA\/subdirectoryB\/yourFile.txt";\nmatch("[^(\\\/)]*$", $matchString);\n\n\/\/ Result: yourFile.txt \/\/<\/pre>\n
File extension from path<\/p>\n
\nstring $matchString = "c:\\testdir\\subdirectoryA\/subdirectoryB\/yourFile.txt";\nmatch("[^(.)]*$", $matchString);\n\n\/\/ Result: txt \/\/<\/pre>\n
Filename excluding extension from path<\/p>\n
\nstring $matchString = "c:\\testdir\\subdirectoryA\/subdirectoryB\/yourFile.txt";\nmatch("^[^.]*", match("[^(\\\/)]*$", $matchString));;\n\n\/\/ Result: yourFile \/\/
<\/pre>\n
Backslashes to forward slashes<\/p>\n
\nstring $matchString = "c:\\testdir\\subdirectoryA\/subdirectoryB\/yourFile.txt";\nsubstituteAllString($matchString, "\\", "\/");\n\n\/\/ Result: c:\/testdir\/subdirectoryA\/subdirectoryB\/yourFile.txt \/\/<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
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