Getting the name of the parent node

Sometimes you'll need the name of the parent/container node that you're working in. It might be a "car_01" or something like that.

What you need to do is trick a wrangle into using houdiniscript. We do this by creating a parameter/channel and then typing in the script we wish to run, enclosed with backticks ` `

opname is the function we want to run and .. will get us up a level.
so in the wrangle use

s@string_name=chs("whatever");

hit the create-channel-box button, then type this in it

`opname("..")`

you now have a string value of the parent node that you could strip/atoi, whatever.

Check names for duplicates

point wrangle snippet from Mike

int find = findattribval(0,"point","name",s@name);
int count = findattribvalcount(0,"point","name",s@name);
i@find = find;
i@count = count;

match, finding a string in a wrangle. Wildcards.

in Blast nodes you can use wildcards * all over the place
eg. @name=*something
will kill anything with "something" in it's name attribute. It's a little different when you want to select things in this manner in a wrangle. We use the "match" function to do this-


if(match("*stick*",@name)){

s@value="yeah!";


}

Here we look for the string "stick" in the attribute "name". On success, we make "value" equal to "yeah!".