Convert string[] to string

[chadrik]

is there a way to return only a single given element from an array? for example, if i know that

listRelatives -c -s object

is going to return only one element, it would make my life much simpler if i could catch that value in a non-array string.

i wrote this little helper function to allow you to do this

global proc string returnElem ( int $elemNum, string $array[])
{
return $array[$elemNum];
}

so that you can do this:

string $nonArray = returnElem 0 listRelatives -c -s object;

but i would rather do this using built-in mel syntax, if it is supported.

thanks,
chad

[isdito2001]

Perdon for my bad english:

I work with:

global string $tmp[];
for($objeto in $tmp){
$objeto+=$objeto + " ";
}

with tokenize can you create the array in other place.

when you in maya realease a ask, I think always give you and array, you can find with the index of the array and generated string $pp=$kk[$index], this is the same that in this moment are you realeasing.

I think that you answer not have better optimized system

[campbell]

yeah, its hardwired into the commands. some commands that seem to only ever return single elements still output them as arrays (maybe the once did during dev phase?). so just use tmp arrays, or declare a tiny array and just use the 0th element from it throughout your code. a method i just thought up is to use: for ($nonArray in command), which'll dump that last returned element into a non-array variable - which'll be the first element, if you know the command will only be returning one item. but its not as readable as $tmp[] = command; $item = $tmp[0];

short answer, no.