Alphabetizing a string array?

[Nicool]

I hope for you their already exists a function in Maya mel :hmm:

[dwalden74]

None that I´ve seen, that´s why I asked.

:beer:

[bigfatMELon]

Oh, but there is. It's the sort command. Example:


string $array[] = {"Fili", "Dwalin", "Balin", "Kili"};
print `sort $array`;

Balin
Dwalin
Fili
Kili


-jl

[dwalden74]

hey that´s great, thanks! :beer: I was looking through the other string commands (ie, stringArrayRemoveDuplicates), but sadly there were no "related commands" like this listed...

You is one big fat melon!
David

[bigfatMELon]

Depends on where you look. See ArrayTools (my version, not the imposterized version someone else wrote with the same name) in highend3d.

//Examples:
// $fatArray = {"blue", "blue", "red", "green", "blue", "green"};
// flattenStringArray $fatArray;
// // Result: blue red green //

-jl

[dwalden74]

No, I mean I was looking through the MEL docs.

See ArrayTools (my version, not the imposterized version someone else wrote with the same name) in highend3d.

Some of these seem to do the same thing as some standard Maya commands:

addStringArray -> stringArrayCatenate
flattenStringArray -> stringArrayRemoveDuplicates

Also itemInStringArray could be used like stringArrayCount (the latter returns number of occurences in a string of an item)

The others seem pretty cool.

:beer:
David

[bigfatMELon]

This is true. I wrote these long ago, long before those commands were available. Not that it matters who wrote them first, but that is the reason they appear in the set.

You might also take a look at StringTools, a large set of wrappers for regex and more complex string functions.

-jl

[dwalden74]

yo´, thanks for the tip.

david

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