Problems With Regular Expression

[sheriffcicada]

Hey guys-

I am trying to create a replace object script that will take all connections on an object, and replace it with a new one. My thought was to find all connections then strip the name off, and connect the corresponding new object with the same connections. Anyways, I was looking into regular expressions, and will invest in a book on it, but for now, I have this, that I thought would strip everything before the "." hence leaving only the attribute name.

CODE
string $baseStrip = match "$[\$.]*" $base;

I am obviosly missing somethiing here. Thanks to anyone who responds.

Scott

[joojaa]

match "[.].*" $base;

ok so it matches the . too you can substring that but if you turly want this you can use maya 7 substitute instead im not sure its more efficent tough.

$return=`substitute $base "s/(.)[.](.)/$2/"

[ewerybody]

hey Scott! Don't you know what to do before posting in a forum? : seek if its already there ;]

we discussed execly this quite detailed. But hey joojaa. that greedy/nongreedy substitute attempt is new to me.

tokenizing is always an option. But if you really just need one part of the string reg Exp feels smarter and more slim.
But hey if the book really helps you tell me what it is! I still don't get it ..

[joojaa]

Greedy tires to hog as much as it can. Still satifying teh solution

nongreedy get content with as little as it can get. Stops when it fids the first satifying condition. However i just emulate nongreedy the algirithm in maya is allways geared greedy in some regextt laguges you cas spoecify wether it should be greedy or not.

so a greedy triews to match many of the citria because even a seocd match still satifies the original idea. Any and . is smatched even in the cese youy match untill the next dot. wich is greedy.