change name based on background image name

Submitted by cuatcside on Wed, 2014-12-10 14:57

I have a camera in max file with background image assigned to it. how can I change the name of the camera to the first 3 letter of the background image file name?

For example if the background image is here: "c:\temp\test34.jpg"
the camera name will be "tes"

I tried this in maxscript listener but got stuck.

bg = backgroundimagefilename
x = filterstring bg "\ "
x[size(x)] <== this line is not working

Thanks for any help.

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Submitted by miauu on Thu, 2014-12-11 02:28.

.

(
	bgImagePath = "c:\\temp\\test34.jpg"
	bgImageName = getFilenameFile bgImagePath
	first3chars = bgImageName
	str = substring  bgImageName 1 3
	format "str: % \n" str
)

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