Mel Script equivalent to Python's "variable{0}".format(var)?

[clayton-krause]

I've been using Python to drive Maya for a while now and love it. Writing up an expression now which is in Mel and sort of stuck on how to emulate the format command in Python. I have a number of like named nodes that I need to perform an opration on using a for loop.

How do I splice my counter of the forloop into the node name I want to operate on? 

loose example of python/mel mashup below for example-

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for( $i=0; $i<4; ++$i )
{

keyframe -index 1 -absolute -valueChange $maxHeightPad pad_t{0}_animCurve.format($i); //  <------END OF THIS LINE

}
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Thank you for the help. Honestly I don't know what this operation is even called in Mel Script or I would of found it by now. 

[davus]

I'm not really familiar with python, but if you just want to add the loop increment to the name you can do somwthing like this:

for($i=0;$i<4;$i++){

    keyframe -index 1 -absolute -valueChange $maxHeightPad  ("pad_t" + $i + "_animCurve.format");

}