Stepping through block to get Text value.

[Strydaris]

Hi everyone,

 

Looking for some help here with something.

What I am looking to do is to get a text or mtext value inside a block.

Issue may be that that text value could be another block nested in another block nest in another one.

All depends on how the consultants we work with decide to send them.

The other issue may be that there my be 2 text values inside the nested block, but what I want is the one that will be selected by the LISP.

 

I have moderate knowledge of LISP, but have never looked into stepping through a block to get to a nested block. Not sure where to begin with this.

 

Thanks in advance for the knowledge and help.

Stry.

[Tharwat]

The easiest and fastest functions that you can read about, are nentsel & nentselp which should be a good way to work directly with nested objects even nested into nested.

[mhupp]

Maybe just burst everything?

http://www.lee-mac.com/upgradedburst.html

[Steven P]

10 hours ago, mhupp said:

Maybe just burst everything?

http://www.lee-mac.com/upgradedburst.html

 

Ah, go on, if you are quoting Lee Mac, I'll see your nested burst and raise you Copy Swap Text (CTX), (http://lee-mac.com/copytext.html)

 

RTN from this function (defun copyswaptext:getselection ( msg ini / rtn sel str tmp ) returns the selected entity name and the text value - what the inputs are can be found in the rest of the code.

 

 

 

CTX is one of my favourite functions, tried making up similar but it was never quite as good as his - well worth having in your LISP library

Edited June 8, 2023 by Steven P