You can use aString.startswith("BEGIN") to test if a string object starts with
a prefix.
But I decided to just write a full example, with comments:
http://pastebin.com/MEDTr5A0
This example will open the file, and parse every single agent into a final
dictionary object.
Here is a second version of that function which can take an optional prefix,
which must match against the agent name to be included:
http://pastebin.com/JcrxTpwN
-- justin
On May 6, 2013, at 8:20 PM, Bay wrote:
> Hi all,
> as part of my class I hope to be able to extract the world space
> location of a particular group of agents in my Massive project (In this case,
> the Ultralisk agents, at the end of apf file) so that I may bake their
> location for every frame in another Maya file so that I could attach effects
> to their animation.
>
>
> While I have been able to read the file and extract the position of all
> the root joints location(b_Waist_JNT) I do not know how to get it to
> specifically read each line till it gets to BEGIN Ultralisk THEN take the
> b_Waist_JNT information.
>
> Basically I just want to know how to get Python to look for a string in every
> line it's reading in a file, THEN look for a particular line after if i'm
> making sense here.
>
> Any advice offered would be much appreciated.
>
> Thank you
>
>
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