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25 Apr 2024 09:26:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Loops and strings  
From: Stephen
Date: 21 Mar 2016 17:36:03
Message: <56f06943$1@news.povray.org>
On 3/21/2016 8:19 PM, Dedus wrote:
> "somemesh_xx" is a string and I want to generate 60 different objects from 60
> different STL-files by using a loop with the variable "xx".
> So I would like avoid writing somemesh_01 , somemesh_02 , ... , somemesh_60
> and to be able to change the attribute of all by only changing one variable.

You might want to think of using concat in a loop. Below is code to 
include a file "Chain02G2Y_XX.pov" where XX depends on the frame number.


#include 
concat("f:\\Graphics\\Data\\Chain02G2Y_",str(mod(frame_number,89),-4,0),".pov")



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Regards
     Stephen


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