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Klarre · Aug 9th, 2005, 1:27 PM

I have just begun scripting in Maya, and therefor need some help.

The goal is to create a script that generates a textfile that looks like this:

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group house
{
    object window
    object door
    object funnel

    position = 23 23 23
    rotation = 45 16 23
    scale = 1 1 1
}

What my Maya script is doing is that it simply goes through the stuff in the scene using ls -as. All my groups in the scene are named like house_grp, where the three last letters should tell the script that it is reading a group.
My problem is:

How do I, from a string, reads the last three characters?

The script look like this so far:

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for($each in `ls -as`)
{
    string $str_each = $each;
    // Code here!
    print $str_each;
}

Where it says "Code here!" I want to read the three last characters of the $str_each variable. But how?

/Klarre

Aug 9th, 2005, 1:27 PM	#1
Klarre Game engine designer Join Date: May 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 301 Rep Power: 4	[MEL (Maya)] Newbie scripter I have just begun scripting in Maya, and therefor need some help. The goal is to create a script that generates a textfile that looks like this: (Toggle Plain Text) group house { object window object door object funnel position = 23 23 23 rotation = 45 16 23 scale = 1 1 1 } group house { object window object door object funnel position = 23 23 23 rotation = 45 16 23 scale = 1 1 1 } What my Maya script is doing is that it simply goes through the stuff in the scene using ls -as. All my groups in the scene are named like house_grp, where the three last letters should tell the script that it is reading a group. My problem is: How do I, from a string, reads the last three characters? The script look like this so far: (Toggle Plain Text) for($each in `ls -as`) { string $str_each = $each; // Code here! print $str_each; } for($each in `ls -as`) { string $str_each = $each; // Code here! print $str_each; } Where it says "Code here!" I want to read the three last characters of the $str_each variable. But how? /Klarre

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