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biggyninja

08-22-2007, 01:04 AM

Hi guys, this seems like a fairly straightforward thing to do, but ive been tearing my hair over it. (am only a maxscript casual user...)

you can save your max files and add to the name by using (example)+"addmetext.max". How can you delete parts of the filename.

For example, if i wanted to import .obj files, delete the ".obj" before adding the ".max" to the fillename.
(I would also be handy if someone could tell me how you can import files and use their names for the maxfiles without the file extension, although iam thinking i will need to know how to delete parts of a filename anyway...)

Cheers guys...

ofer_z

08-22-2007, 01:49 AM

there are a couple of ways to do this. first, there's the general purpose substring function, which you can use like:

filename = "c:\\somedir\\somefile.ext"
substring filename 1 (filename.count - 4)

there are some functions that deal specifically with file names: getFilenamePath, getFilenameFile and getFilenameType, so you can use this code to the same effect as the above code:

filename = "c:\\somedir\\somefile.ext"
getFilenamePath filename + getFilenameFile filename

for more detailed information, check out the maxscript help file.

hOpe this helps,
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biggyninja

08-22-2007, 02:50 AM

thanks, yeah, just needed a gentle push in the right direction.

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