SSGET - Greater than or Equal to, but also Less than or equal to

[Strydaris]

Hey everyone,

 

Was hoping someone could help me out here.

I am trying to write a LISP that will update some old text styles to our newer standards.

The old style were just setup with 1 style and multiple size difference.

 

I am trying to use ssget to create a selection set to select all text or mtext with a range Lets say from 4.25 to 4.75

I think I know how to do this, but I cant seem to figure out the formatting.

 

(ssget "_X" '((0 . *TEXT) (-4 . ">=") (40 . "4.25") (-4 . "<=") (40 . "4.25")))

 

I thought this was correct, but its throwing me an error.

Can anyone help out with this?

I want to get all text 4.25 or higher up to and equal to 4.75.

 

Thanks

[Tharwat]

I guess the text height value has to be real or integer and not string.

[Saxlle]

2 hours ago, Strydaris said:

(ssget "_X" '((0 . *TEXT) (-4 . ">=") (40 . "4.25") (-4 . "<=") (40 . "4.25")))

I think you forgor to put " " in '((0 . "*TEXT") ... and also insted of (40 . "4.25") at the end need to be (40 . "4.75").

[Saxlle]

Agree with @Tharwat

[Strydaris]

7 minutes ago, Saxlle said:

I think you forgor to put " " in '((0 . "*TEXT") ... and also insted of (40 . "4.25") at the end need to be (40 . "4.75").

HI. 

Yes minor spelling errors as I typed it in quickly. 

Mostly I wasn't sure how to use the (-4. "<=") part of the code to get the results I wanted. 

Thanks for the (cons - 4 "<=") version. Wasn't sure you could do that. This will allow me to use variables. 

 

Cheers. 

[Saxlle]

10 hours ago, Strydaris said:

This will allow me to use variables. 

Yes, on this way you can use a variables in "ssget".

 

for e.g. 
(setq txth1 4.25 txth2 4.75
      ss (ssget "_X" (list (cons 0 "*TEXT") (cons -4 ">=") (cons 40 txth1) (cons -4 "<=") (cons 40 txth2)))
      )

 

[Lee Mac]

You can use both evaluated expressions and quoted literals in a list, e.g.:

(setq ht1 4.25 
      ht2 4.75
      sel (ssget "_X" (list '(0 . "*TEXT") '(-4 . ">=") (cons 40 ht1) '(-4 . "<=") (cons 40 ht2)))
)

 

You might find the following tutorials useful in this regard -

https://lee-mac.com/quote.html

https://lee-mac.com/ssget.html

[Strydaris]

@Saxlle & @Lee Mac

 

Thanks.

I got it working and I think I understand more about how to use the operators.

 

Lee, your ssget tutorials was the first place I went when I was trying to figure this out.

I did not know about your quote tutorial though. I will check it out.

 

Thanks again all.