Isolate name

[animationrigs]

You can loop through the array and use regular expressions to match on "hello" for example. Depending on what you need, you can put the results in a new array or do whatever you need to in your loop.
loop:
I mean for loop
regular expressions, check out:
match
gmatch

[Segmoria]

Another suggestion would be to use the startsWith command so as to check whether each string starts with a "Hello_" and then copy the strings that don't to another array using something like the following:
{
string $allStrings[] = {"Hello_Boobby","Hello_Shawn","Steve","Martin"};
string $nonHelloStrings[];

int $stringsToRemove[];
for ($i = 0; $i < `size($allStrings)`; $i++)
{
if ( (startsWith($allStrings[$i], "Hello_")) == 0 )
{
$nonHelloStrings[$i] = $allStrings[$i];
}
}
}

[JFFORTIN]

thx Segmoria
i use finally

if( `gmatch $obj[$i] "Hello*"`)
{
do something;
}

works perfectly


i saw the startstring in the help after i use gmatch

cheers

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