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Leffler

04-02-2009, 03:19 PM

Hello!

I´m having a little problem here

Take a look at this

string $test = "test_knee_test";

if($test == "*_knee_*")
print "Yes";

else print "No";

I want it to return Yes, but it doesn´t. Shouldn´t it?

If i do a search in maya like this:
select -r ("*_knee_*");
That selects what I want ...

... so why is not the if-statement working?

// Otto

r4inm4ker

04-02-2009, 03:36 PM

because == is for exact comparison, i.e _knee_ == _knee_

if you want to use *, then use gmatch command.

if(`gmatch $test "*_knee_*"`)

Leffler

04-02-2009, 05:31 PM

Thank you Jefri, great!

Otto

Free4

04-02-2009, 09:22 PM

Or use the "match" command as it will allow you to use more in depth regular expressions for hunting string matches

Leffler

04-03-2009, 08:04 AM

Okey, will try that too, thanks Free4

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