Object starts with?

Question

Is there a way to see if an object exists in Maya, but only search for a partial object name?

Example, search for an object that starts with object, but it's actual name is object_001.

Is there a way to do this? As it stands I only know how to search for a specific name:

if (objExists('object_001'):
    //Do Something

But obviously the obj stringwould have to be exact to the object e it self.

If you know it will always be a number you could try a loop with something like light = 'Light_%d' % (light_id) | or there are some python string functions that you could try searching the hiearchy — user-2147482637, Aug 25 '13 at 12:22

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 25 '13 at 13:39

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Pymel ls seems to accept directly a regular expression matching names, thus the following should work - provided that matching elements exists, a non-empty list will be returned; and a non-empty list in boolean context will be evaluated as True, whereas an empty will be False.

if ls(regex='object.*'):
    ...

answered Aug 25 '13 at 13:39

Antti Haapala -- Слава Україні

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You also don't need to specify a regex flag. `ls('object*')` will do just as well. – Argiri Kotsaris Aug 25 '13 at 15:38
Remember to use r=True if namespaces are available – theodox Aug 25 '13 at 16:01
I know I said starts with in the question, however if I have an object labeled 'Titles_labelGroup_1', labelGroup is always static, it never changes, so how can I perform the regex if labelGroup exists anywhere? – Shannon Hochkins Aug 25 '13 at 22:47

Object starts with?

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