How do I get an object's ULTRA-short name?

[naughty]

I'm having difficulty getting the short name of an object which is a child and has a name that is used elsewhere (under a different parent)
I'm using ls -sl -sn but I get the parent name too and I only want the objects name..

here is what my heirarchy looks like (in Outliner format!):

o Landing
'---o walls

o Bedroom_A
|---o Walls
'---o Bed

o Bathroom
|---o Walls
|---o Bathtub
'---o Sink

(sorry about the lame ascii art representation)

When I select and query the name of Bathroom|Sink using ls -sl -sn it returns Sink but when I select and query the name of Bathroom|Walls it returns Bathroom|Walls and I JUST want to get Walls

What can i do??

:nathaN

[tnt]

the sn flag is for short attribute names, so in this case useless.
you could extract the name of the object:

//***************************
string $currentSelection[] = ls -sl;
string $tokTmp[];
int $count = tokenize $currentSelection[0] "|" $tokTmp;
string $result = $tokTmp[$count - 1];
print $result;
//***************************

[naughty]

That's done it great. cheers. Tokenize eh? you learn something new every day!

[glocker]

You get Sink only because Sink is a unique node name. You get a full path to Wall to make it unique. ls -sl returns node names that you can pass to other MEL routines. This means that the node names must be unique.

If you need something else, you have to parse the returned node name, as was already suggested in a previous post.

g-