node's string or integer reading

[cloudfx]

What is the expression name which allows you to read parent node or node's string or integer as value.

let say node name is "null24" and I can read "null" as string value and 24 as integer value?

[Macha]

opdigits() gives you the digits, that much I know...

[3dbeing]

opdigits

will give you the number

not sure about striping the number out...

you could do it in python with regex

**edit

import re ##<---dont forget this

**eidt

node = hou.node('path')

check = re.search('(.[^0-9]+)([0-9]+)',node.name())

print check.group(1)

print check.group(2)

Edited December 15, 2011 by 3dbeing

[3dbeing]

after a little thought you can strip the digits out in hscript like this...pretty ugly, but it works

`substr(${OS},0,strlen(${OS})-strlen(opdigits(".")))`