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RUDOLF_BOTHMA
Community Hero
6 years ago

Use .Find to get all elements that do NOT match the search properties

Hi all,   I'm trying to find a way to make my code less loopy and possibly improve the performance.  I'm trying to take a list of items, get rid of the items that I'm not interested in, and keep ...
Object Recognition
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    6 years ago

    Hi,

     

    The below may appear to be not relevant for your real case because I don't know how color is determined, but as an idea you may consider using regular expressions for search parameters.

    Sample pseudocode:

    var objects = root.FindAllChildren(['Type', 'Color'], ['regexp: (vegetable)|(fruit)', 'regexp:^(red)'], depth);

     

  • RUDOLF_BOTHMA's avatar
    RUDOLF_BOTHMA
    6 years ago

    That is SOO exactly what I was looking for, thanks ! :smileyvery-happy:

    Syntax correction:

    It's 'regexp:[^(red)]' - it was just missing the [] around the ^(red)

     

AlexKaras's avatar
AlexKaras
Champion Level 3
6 years ago

Hi,

 

The below may appear to be not relevant for your real case because I don't know how color is determined, but as an idea you may consider using regular expressions for search parameters.

Sample pseudocode:

var objects = root.FindAllChildren(['Type', 'Color'], ['regexp: (vegetable)|(fruit)', 'regexp:^(red)'], depth);

 

  • RUDOLF_BOTHMA's avatar
    RUDOLF_BOTHMA
    Community Hero
    6 years ago

    That is SOO exactly what I was looking for, thanks ! :smileyvery-happy:

    Syntax correction:

    It's 'regexp:[^(red)]' - it was just missing the [] around the ^(red)

     

    • AlexKaras's avatar
      AlexKaras
      Champion Level 3
      6 years ago

      Hi,

       

      > That is SOO exactly

      Wow, great to hear! :)

       

      > Syntax correction:

      May be, needs to be checked.

      To my understanding, [red] will match if the string been processed contains either 'r', or 'e', or 'd'.

      While (red) should match 'red' exactly.

      But I might be wrong and, as I said, exact syntax needs verification.

       

      • RUDOLF_BOTHMA's avatar
        RUDOLF_BOTHMA
        Community Hero
        6 years ago

        > Syntax correction

        Not a critisism, just an update for future readers of the post :smileyhappy:

        > While (red) should match 'red' exactly

        That's the result I got when testing [red] versus (red)