Help with a simple action script with relevance substitution

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(imported topic written by cm6591)

Hi,

I have an action script as follows:

parameter “new” = “{names of files of folder “C:\temp”}”

and the result is:

parameter “new” = “events_123events_1234events_12345”

the names of the files are:

events_123

events_1234

events_12345

Basically, I want each name to be assigned to a different variable. How can I do that? For example,

new1 = events_123

new2 = events_1234

new3 = events_12345

Thanks

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(imported comment written by cm6591)

I tried the following for this:

Q:item 0 of (names of files of folder “C:\temp”)

E: The tuple index 0 is out of range.

Not sure where am I going wrong with this?

Thanks

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi cm,

Unfortunately, you can’t set parameters to multiple values with a list like this…

What are you trying to do with these variables? maybe there is another way…

Ben

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(imported comment written by cm6591)

Thanks Ben. I think I have made some progress. But I need further help…

//this is giving me comma delimited results

q:concatenation “,” of (names of files of folder “C:\temp”)

A: events_123,events_1234,events_12345

T: 1.015 ms

//now i want to get the first item of the above results and I am getting an error. I don’t understand

Q:item 0 of (concatenation “,” of (names of files of folder “C:\temp”))

E: The tuple index 0 is out of range.

Thanks

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi cm,

“item” is used for “tuples”… as an example:

Q: item 1 of (0,1,2)
A: 1

But I am not sure how this relates to what you are trying to do (I am not clear what problem you are trying to accomplish).

Ben

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(imported comment written by cm6591)

Thanks Ben. I’m now able to get this to work

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(imported comment written by jeremytoo)

cm, can you post your working code? It’ll help answer the question for someone searching the archives of the forum :slight_smile: