Splitting Avatar Names at whitespace

Is there a function in the lsl similar to Pythons split or strip or something to be precise can strip everything after and including a whitespace from a string?

I'm sure I could create a buffer to store the name in calculate the size of each char in the string then remove everything after the whitespace, but that seems like reinventing the wheel.

Anyone know of something like this. I was unable to find anything in the Wiki.

Check out llParseString2List ... this might do what you need.

llSubStringIndex to find the whitespace llGetSubString to strip it

ie

integer stop  = llSubStringIndex("joe av"," ");
string output = llGetSubString("joe av",0,(stop - 1));

or

output = llGetSubString("joe av",0,(llSubStringIndex("joe av"," ") - 1));

you want the - 1 or else it would save the space in the string...

llParseString2List() is pretty much equivalent to Python split().

  list words;
  string first_name;
  string str = "Learjeff Innis";
  
  words = llParseStringList(str, " ", "");       // words = str.split(" ");
  first_name = llList2String(words, 0);        // first_name = words[0];

first_name's value is then "Learjeff".

Main difference is "words[0]" would raise an error in Python if str was empty, but simply returns the empty string in LSL (IIRC).

Thank you that makes a world of difference, and does exactly what I wanted.

This is very helpul but how would I get the end part too without knowing what the second word is?

In similar circumstances, I tend to favor llDeleteSubString, to skip the additional math:

string Name = "Joe Blo";
integer Space = llSubStringIndex( Name, " " );
string FirstName = llDeleteSubString( Name, Space, -1 );
string LastName = llDeleteSubString( Name, 0, Space );

string input = "joe av";

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        string first_name = llGetSubString(input ,0 ,(llSubStringIndex(input ," ") - 1));
        string last_name = llGetSubString(input ,(llSubStringIndex(input ," ") + 1), -1); 
    }
}

let me inflate this so you can see whats actually going on ....

string input = "Osgeld Barmy";

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        // find the space in the name 
        // and save its numerical position
        // within the input string
        integer whitespace_pointer = llSubStringIndex(input, " ");
        
 string first_name = llGetSubString(input ,0 , (whitespace_pointer - 1) );
        // get the first name with llGetSubString
        // starting at the first charater (0) and 
        // ending at the whitespace_pointer minus 1
        // minus 1 so we dont get the whitespace in
        // the output string
        
 string last_name = llGetSubString(input, (whitespace_pointer + 1), -1);
        // get the last name with llGetSubString
        // starting at the first charater AFTER 
        // the whitespace (whitespace_pointer + 1)
        // and continue reading the string untill 
        // we reach the end, to do this use (negitive) 1
        
        llOwnerSay("the whitespace is at " + (string)whitespace_pointer);
        llOwnerSay("the first name is " + first_name);
        llOwnerSay("the last name is " + last_name);
    }
}

simple eh?

http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=llGetSubString
http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=llSubStringIndex

nm heh