C4D Xpresso selecting specific character number

[butler 0]

I'm looking for some help with this xpresso. So lets say I have a text object that has the word "hello" in it. What would I need to do in xpresso to get letter #2 by itself(which is 'e') so I can have that letter be the text of another text object?

I am pretty sure this would need a custom coffee thing but I am clueless.

Thanks

[tcastudios 0]

To get you started by using Python expression Tag

import c4d
def main():
   from_obj = doc.GetFirstObject()
   to_obj   = op.GetObject()
   source   = from_obj[c4d.PRIM_TEXT_TEXT]
   to_obj[c4d.PRIM_TEXT_TEXT] = source[1]

 

Cheers

Lennart

Edited March 19, 2012 by tcastudios

[tezuka 0]

Here's an coffe node inside a xpresso setup which finds a string by position:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28253825/FindString.c4d

[butler 0]

Here's an coffe node inside a xpresso setup which finds a string by position:

http://dl.dropbox.co.../FindString.c4d

Brilliant!!! Thanks so so much!!!!

[tezuka 0]

I just read the actual Coffee SDK and modified an example in there, highly recommended :-)

http://www.maxon.net/index.php?id=157&L=0

[C.Smith 0]

Personally I would use Lennart's Python version. Using string slicing in Python is extremely powerful and easy. He just gave you the second letter: 'source[1]' but you could easily get any combination of letters with just a few variations.

 

PEEP THIS for Python string slicing