POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Convert string identifier to object name: Re: Convert string identifier to object name

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From: clipka
Date: 2 Nov 2009 08:15:36
Message: <4aeedb78$1@news.povray.org>

Thomas de Groot schrieb:

> Perfect Chris! It works. I just  changed my code line to:
> 
> #local ObjName = Parse_String(concat("object {",PoserName,"}"))
> 
> and used that for further work in the scene.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> PS I shall have to look into strings.inc to discover what more is hidden 
> there :-)  Fact is that I do not know *everything* that POV-Ray offers....

Fun facts to know:

The Parse_String macro actually "inlines" the string by writing it to a 
temporary file, which it then includes.

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