Adding a specific suffix to an object?

[macaroniKazoo]

thats a weird way of doing it - why don't you just make a function that makes the actual group for you, instead of just renaming the group thats already there?

but anyway, to answer your question, the problem is that you're treating a string array, as if it were a string.

select group1;
$par = `listRelatives -c`; <-- this returns a string array (look in the docs)
$name = $par + "_Ctrl";
rename group1 $name;

so try this:
select group1;
$par = `listRelatives -c`;
$name = $par[0] + "_Ctrl";
rename group1 $name;

perhaps a better way to do it would be this:

string $selObjs[] = `ls -sl`;
for( $obj in $selObjs ) group -name ( $obj + "_Ctrl" ) $obj;

[Lomax]

Thanks for the reply!
I actually do have a function for creating the group, I just couldn't figure out how to get it to base its name off of the object. :shrug:

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