How to extract partial object name to refer global table name?

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Ankur A3 asked Jun 3, '22 Jeanette F commented Jun 8, '22

How to extract partial object name to refer global table name?

Hi Team,

I have 10 objects as below:

Obj1_Chair, Obj2_Chair............................................................Obj10_Chair

These objects are having label names as Time_In, Time_Out

I also have global tables related to these objects as below:

Obj1_GlobalTable, Obj2_GlobalTable.........................................................Obj10_GlobalTable

I want to create generic logic for with these object by passing object names (Obj1, Obj2.................Obj10) as loop value.

How can I refer global table name since I have to exclude chair from Object name?

Thank you!

Software Version:

FlexSim 21.0.10

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Jun 08, 2022 at 03:28 PM

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Answer 1 · 2022-06-03T16:15:26Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Jun 3, '22

There are a lot of different ways to do this. Here are some examples:

String Replace

If you know all the objects end with a specific string you can replace that string with a blank string:

string name = "Obj1_Chair";
return name.replace("_Chair", "");

String Replace with Regular Expression

If you want to generically remove the underscore and any characters after it you can use a regular expression that matches the pattern "an underscore followed by any number of other characters":

string name = "Obj1_Chair";
return name.replace(/_.*/, "");

String Split

You could also use the string.split() method to split the string into an array of substrings using the underscore as the delimiter:

string name = "Obj1_Chair";
return name.split("_")[1];

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