get_element

get_element
s_string 
s_name

Parses a string of the form:

"name1:value1,name2:value2,name3:value3…"

to return the value for the named element.

The shorthand version of this command, gelt, can also be used.

s_name	Specifies the name.
s_string	Specifies the string to be parsed.

s_value

The value for the named element.

The following command shows the bounds returns a string representing the bounds of a route segment.

ip bounds [get_selection_set]
"xlo: 570.42, ylo: 567.12, xhi: 589.86, yhi: 567.42"

Using the previous example, the following command returns the value for the xlo element.

get_element [inspect_prop bounds [get_selection_set]] xlo
570.42

The following command uses shorthand names for get_element(gelt) and inspect_prop (ip).

gelt [ip bounds [get_selection_set]] xlo
570.42