# Returned string\[\] question
**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/returned-string-question/6707
**Category:** Maya
**Tags:** mel
**Created:** [November 26, 2001, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/returned-string-question/6707 "2001-11-26T16:08:23Z")
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### Author:  [@user\_deleted](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/user_deleted)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2001, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/returned-string-question/6707/1 "2001-11-26T16:08:23Z")
I'm putting a script together to make geometry, and I've fallen at the first hurdle...
I wish to make a few arcs with the circle command, then loft them together. My problem is this:
The string[] returned from the circle command gives me "makeNurbCircle", not the actual object name, so when I come to loft, it's failing.
my commands are:
$circleNames=`circle -c 0 0 0 -nr 0 0 0 -sw $degree -r $radius -d 3 -ut 0 -tol 0.01 -s 6`;
$loftList="""+$circleNames[1]+""";
$circleNames=`circle -c 0 0 0 -nr 0 0 0 -sw $degree -r $radOut -d 3 -ut 0 -tol 0.01 -s 6`;
$loftList=$loftList+" ""+$circleNames[1]+""";
which gives me:
"makeNurbCircle.." "makeNurbCircle.."
as the $loftList contents.
Can someone tell me how do i receive the correct names?
cheers!
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### Author:  [@user\_deleted](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/user_deleted)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2001, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/returned-string-question/6707/2 "2001-11-26T16:20:54Z")
$circleNames[0]
its ALLWAYS the same... i fret over an answer, then give up, post the question here, and the next second I figure it out...
oh well.. on to hurdle number two...