Truncating and saving text as number

I have an object with animations named like animation1, animation2, animation3, animation4, etc.

I want to save that to a number variable but removing the word "animation", meaning

animation1 will set a variable to 1

animation2 will set a variable to 2

animation3 will set a variable to 3

and so on

Is this possible to make using only 1 event? I'm not too good with text-related expressions.

Help please.

regular expressions:

"/animation(\d+)/"

This expression will return the number as a string, convert it to int

[quote:3uaopvwy]RegexMatchAt(String, Regex, Flags, Index)

Process the regular expression Regex on String with Flags, and in the list of results, return the entry at Index.

myString = "animation2"

int(RegexMatchAt(myString, "/animation(\d+)/", "", 0))

IndieKiwi

It's not working.

What did I do wrong here?

int(RegexMatchAt(Player.AnimationName, "/animation(\d+)/", "", 0))

Ok i tested this one. file also attached

int(RegexMatchAt(Player.AnimationName,"animation(\d+)", "",1))

IndieKiwi

for some reason, it doesn't work when I use the Player.AnimationName directly

any tips to solve this?

Also tried saving the anmation name into a text variable first, then referencing the text variable inside regex.

Still not working.

Bit hard to guess what exactly is wrong without seeing it. Is Player.AnimationName definitely containing the expected string ie "animiation1" all lowercase as well?

Oh, finally got it to work!

Thanks for taking note of the lowercase issue.

My animations are Animation1, Animation2, and so on.

It works now. My bad. Noob mistake. Thanks again.

adding "i" to the third parameter in RegexMatchAt should ignore letter-casing (for future reference)

adding "i" to the third parameter in RegexMatchAt should ignore letter-casing (for future reference)

like this?

int(RegexMatchAt(Player.AnimationName,"animation(\d+)", "i",1))

where you read that (adding "i") btw? I did not see it from system expressions in manual just now?

Yeah does it work?

I haven't used regex in construct 2 yet (or in javascript), but i use it at work almost daily in php.

I test my expressions on: http://regexpal.com/

And this should be useful for learning: http://www.regular-expressions.info/