(Maya) MEL need help with extracting numeric part of a name

Bodizzz

Hi guys, i am trying to extract numeric value of a name. For example i have listed an edge and i got :
// Result: pCube1.e[17] //  

How can i extract just the number, so i can get something like this: 
/ Result: 17// 


I tried using match command, but i can't achieve result i want, 

string $node = "pCube1.e[17]";

string $suffix = `match "[[0-9]+]" $node`;

and it gives me:  // Result: [17] // 

how to get rid if those square brackets?

haiddasalami

you could do this: 

string $suffix = match("[0-9]+", `match "[[0-9]+]" $node`);

or could use tokenize instead if you dont want to mess around with regex. The top code basically matched the [###] and then matches again for just numbers.

Bodizzz

Thanks a lot