Using Pointposition

[meecho]

I stored a name of the selected object using-

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string surfaceName[] = ls -sl -o;

then later on in my script, i wanted to store the position of a random vertex on that object mentioned before using pointPosition -
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float $vertPos[] = pointPosition $surfaceName.vtx[$randomNum];

However it returns with,
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Error: Too many arguments. Expected 1, found 2

I know it has something to do with using $surfaceName as it works if i type the actual name of the object instead. But i need to be able to use this script with any name.

Any ideas?

Thankyou

ps. on another forum, i was suggested to do this-
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float $vertPos[] = pointPosition ($surfaceName+".vtx["+$randomNum+"]");

but that returned-
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Error: Illegal operation "+" on data type string[].

[davvey]

Hi
You need to call a single item from the array as follows and sum the string to form a valid call
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float $vertPos[] = pointPosition ($surfaceName[0] + ".vtx[" + $randomNum + "]");
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[meecho]

thankyou very much, that works fine