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Can Houdini convert suffix numbers to letters?

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daverosesumo
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While saving out a bunch of file variations using PDG, I am using `@wedgeindex` to add a numerical suffix onto my file names. I would prefer to use a letter (mesh_A, mesh_B etc) is there any way to do this in Houdini?

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I'm sure there's a tidier way, but you can use python to convert numbers to chars. chr(65) will return A, chr(66) B etc.

This is a python expression in an attribute create:

num = pdg.workItem().intAttribValue('wedgeindex')
name = pdg.workItem().stringAttribValue('name')
return name+'_'+chr(num+65)

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tops_wedgeindex_to_str.hip (122.8 KB)

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This is great thank you! I will try it out.
Thanks for your time

Dave
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