Now I am no VEX expert but is it possible to do something similar to ..

foreach(int num, @name) {}

assuming you have the name attribute setup in the incomming geo ofcourse.

int n = nuniqueval(0, “primitive”, “name”);
for (int i=0;i<n;i++)
{
string name = uniqueval(0, “primitive”, “name”, i);
//do something
printf(“%g\n”, name);
}

Haha it always ends up beeing you Tamte that answer ! Thanks will give it a go !

hmm can't find any syntax that does the next thing I want, for simplicity lets say I want to randomly color each piece as it goes through them in the loop ?

well, you are not looping over geometry of each piece, but over uniue list of names for each element so you can do in prim wrangle for example:
int n = nuniqueval(0, “primitive”, “name”);
for (int i=0;i<n;i++)
{
string name = uniqueval(0, “primitive”, “name”, i);
if (name == @name) @Cd = random(i);
}

but it really depends on what you are doing

*doh* it was as simple as if (name == @name) ..

well..what I would like in the end is something like deleting all the other mesh but the current piece so point numbers etc get re-arranged to 0-$N for each piece while in that itteration.