vex: int to string? (for Font sop)

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Hi!

I have a bunch of points and I would like a copy-to-point to place a number on each point (@ptnum) with the font Sop. I'm tring to find a way to convert my @ptnum to a string that I would place in a detail attribute and later pick that from info in a Font sop.

Any tips on doing this?

-Olivier
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Did you mean something like attached HIP file?

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Copy Font to Points.hip (89.4 KB)

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Hi, Olivier,

you can convert an integer to a string using the “standard” itoa function (https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/vex/functions/itoa.html) - you can set the detail attribute using setdetailattrib:

setdetailattrib(0, "point-id", itoa(@ptnum), "set");

Note that this only makes sense if you have a single point per geometry … the detail-attribute name here is “point-id”.

I hope this helps,
Marc
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This looks perfect! Thanks!

-Olivier
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