incremental renaming - get unique name

Submitted by artrender.info on Wed, 2013-07-03 16:59

I think this is very simple, but I don't know how to do it!

let's say I have array A which contains unique names!

when I want to rename element i.name I want to add automatically a number - 01, 02 and so on!

let's say I have

"element" - > after renaming I should get "element_01"
"element_01" - > after renaming I should get "element_02"
and so on!

Except this I should everytime check:

if (finditem A "element_01" == 0) then
i.name = "element_01"
else
i.name = incrementfn "element_01"

append A i.name

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Submitted by artrender.info on Thu, 2013-07-11 17:16.

solved

finished!

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Submitted by artrender.info on Wed, 2013-07-03 17:11.

here is the idea

global allnames
fn incrementfn old_name =
(
	--check if name end conains digits -- if yes then 
		tryname = (substituteString old_name digits) + "_" + ((digits as integer + 1) as string)
	if (finditem allnames tryname == 0) then
		tryname
	else incrementfn tryname
)
 
 
i.name = incrementfn i.name

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