Problem with procedural naming expresion

[macj89]

Hello!

I am trying to isolate one part of my HIPNAME in order to make a "version folder" when rendering.

So the hip name look like this:

AAA_BBBBBB_cccccccc_v001_ddd

i want to isolate the v001.

I am trying this:

`substr($HIPNAME, 20, 24)`

and instead of giving me  v001  it gives me v001_ddd

I guess is something conflicting with the underscore.

Any other way to isolate it?

Thanks!

[fencer]

17 minutes ago, macj89 said:

Hello!

I am trying to isolate one part of my HIPNAME in order to make a "version folder" when rendering.

So the hip name look like this:

AAA_BBBBBB_cccccccc_v001_ddd

i want to isolate the v001.

I am trying this:

`substr($HIPNAME, 20, 24)`

and instead of giving me  v001  it gives me v001_ddd

I guess is something conflicting with the underscore.

Any other way to isolate it?

Thanks!

substr  - Returns the characters of s between the start position and the start + length position.

20+4

`substr($HIPNAME, 20, 4)`

[macj89]

Yeah, im stupid, i just read again the documentation.

Anyways, at the end looks that  21, 4 solves it

Thanks! haha

[macj89]

Found a better way. Since the " c " string is never locked on character number, i needed something more procedural, so here it is:

`substr($HIPNAME, (strlen($HIPNAME)-8) ,4)`

This calculates the number of letters that HIPNAME has, substracts 8  ( v001_ddd = 8 characters)  to set the starting point and then the 4 is the 4 characters of v001.

I feel like a real hackerman now.
Thanks for the motivation haha