How to spot an instance?

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Hello, everyone

For example, my instance is called @Instance@ID.

Is there a way to check if half of the name matches, then the result is true.

I think also to add in autoload, but there will be many types of instances.

What's your suggestion?

in Engine by (18 points)

2 Answers

+2 votes

You can use the String functions 

begins_with()
ends_with()

If the string begins or end with the same string each time.

If it doesn't, then check out the RegEx class, in particular capturing groups to check if a string matches the regular expression and capturing sub-strings for id's and such.

by (388 points)
0 votes

Hi,
Also, if you just want to know your instance name has the word Instance in it, you can use in

Something like:

if "Instance" in object.name:
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