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1. Help with mel - tokenizing selection

   

   Topic by Alex_Andrews · Mar 2017 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hi, I'm working on a script to place cylinders on selected faces for booleans. I need to place the first selected object into a token so I can call it up, but am confused on how I can bring the selection into a string to tokenize between the "." The script is meant to allow me to select adjacent components on a poly…

2. Re: Help with mel - tokenizing selection

   

   Reply by PolyHertz · Mar 2017 · Home› Technical Talk

   You probably want to use `ls -sl -fl` to make sure each item in the array has its own index before performing the loop. Tokenize works like this: $selectionArray = `ls -sl -fl`; string $newArray []; tokenize $selectionArray[0] "." $newArray; print $newArray;