Search & replace

[lizard]

Hello All
I have a skeleton that is shared by multiple characters so, I used a general naming convention for the various joints such as:

"Name of char." _SpineJoint1
"Name of char." _SpineJoint2

etc.

I was wandering if any of you out there knows of a MEL script that can perform a search for the "Name of char." string in the name of the joints and can replace it with another name of your choice.
This would help me to rename the joints accordingly to the character in a super fast way without having to select each joint and have to replace the name manually!

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks
Liz

[gmask]

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[lizard]

Thanks a lot . . it looks very promising unfortunately I am no programmer!
Please cope with me, I'm just a humble animator. What is the next step that I am supposed to do with it? I understand that I will have to change the variables in the body but . . .where?

Thanks a million

Liz

[gmask]

Maya Search and Replace

Liz.. I posted the wrong link.. Download the MEL script and place it in your AWMaya3.0scriptsothers folder and launch Maya

Then type searchReplace into the commandline and you should then get a little window to type what to search for and what to replace with which will be applied to whatever you have selected

You could also drag the searchReplace text to a shelf so that you can just click a button to bring up the window

I was playing around with it and noticed that it does not replace in each name of the hiearchy of what you may have selected

[lizard]

Dang it!!

I tried but the script editor keeps giving me syntax error messages.
Here is what I do:
I select the root of the skeleton
I invoke the script from the command line
He sends me to hell (Nice!)
and it tells me the following:

SearchReplace;
// Error: / //
// Error: Syntax error //
// Error: $find_entry = textFieldGrp -label "Find" -text $lastSel; //
// Error: "$lastSel" is an undeclared variable. //
// Error: string $go_cmd = ("jSearchReplaceEngine " + $find_entry + " " + $replace_entry + " " + $discard_entry); //
// Error: "$find_entry" is an undeclared variable. //
// Error: string $reload_cmd = ("textFieldGrp -e -text ls -sl -tail 1 " + $find_entry ); //
// Error: "$find_entry" is an undeclared variable. //
// Error: } //
// Error: Syntax error //
// Error: string $rv = textFieldGrp -q -text $r; //
// Error: "$r" is an undeclared variable. //
// Error: string $dv = textFieldGrp -q -text $d; //
// Error: "$d" is an undeclared variable. //
// Error: $new = substitute $fv $buff[($num\_tokens - 1)] $rv; //
// Error: "$fv" is an undeclared variable. //
// Error: } //
// Error: Syntax error //

and I didn't even study arabic!!!
Am i doing something wrong ?
Sorry and thanks again
Liz
l

[gmask]

Your using the wrong script .. download the other one that I posted called Maya Search and Replace.. it's from the alias wavefront site.

You need to make one slight change to the other search and replace script from Alias Wavefront to do what you want.

Change
$objects = ls -sl;
To
$objects = ls -fl -type joint;

The problem here is that the search and replace will now try to rename all joints that it finds the search pattern in.. this will take som more tweaking