WHATID(nged)

✨ WHATID — like, the region-ID finder bestie 💅

okay so real talk, this is the nged command that tells you a region's ident (its region identifier number). It's giving "reverse lookup but make it cute" 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

whatid region

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So the whatid command hands you back the region identifier number (the ident) of whatever region you point at. You gotta give it exactly one region name — not zero, not two, exactly one, no cap. ✨

The object you name has to actually exist in the database, and it has to be a region — meaning a combination with the region flag set. If it's just some random non-region object, whatid is not the one for you, sorry bestie 😭

The result comes back as an integer. If the named object doesn't exist, or it exists but isn't a region, you get an error. That's the whole vibe check. 💀

Fun fact: this is the literal inverse of whichid, which takes a region ID and gives you back the regions that use it. They're giving complementary main character energy 👑

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

Example 1. Get the region ID of a named region

mged> whatid hull.r

Returns the integer region ID assigned to hull.r — for example: 1001. Slay, that's your number 🎉

Example 2. Use the result in a Tcl variable

mged> set id [whatid turret.r] mged> whichid $id

This grabs the region ID of turret.r into a variable, then uses whichid to verify which regions share that ID. Lowkey obsessed with this workflow, ngl 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• whichid(nged)
• whichair(nged)
• idents(nged)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

BRL-CAD Team — icons only, fr fr 💜

🌈 BUG REPORTS 🌈

Found a bug or a problem? Spill the tea via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org 📧 — they genuinely wanna hear it.

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