RhinoScript Object ID

The Rhino.IsObject(strID) always returns false if I manually set strID to a valid ID as returned by Rhino’s List command. For instance:

strID = “FF628557-9C20-403e-AE70-9A3EF6C312EE”
if IsObject(strID) then 'always returns false!

I’m outputting object data to a text file including the IDs, and through a Rhinoscript dialog allowing the user to paste in an ID to select it. There seems to be more than just text associated with a valid ID string though. I’ve also tried the ID as all lower and all upper case, but neither works. How do I format it as a recognizable object ID?

A GUID is a 128-bit structure. The normal string representation uses 32 hex digits to represent the 32 nibbles in the structure, and is not
case-sensitive.

Have you tried Guid.Parse?

I can not reproduce your problem, can you upload the file containing the object?

Are you suggesting to use something like:
sstrID = Guid.Parse(“FF628557-9C20-403e-AE70-9A3EF6C312EE”)

Yes.
But it should work with string representation of GUID too.

I tried this in my RhinoScript code, but it causes a syntax error:
strID = guid.parse(“FF628557-9C20-403e-AE70-9A3EF6C312EE”)
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Are you suggesting to reformat the string using braces instead of hyphens?

You need to first import System.Guid. I don’t know about Rhinoscript but in Python it must be something like this:

import System
import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
strID = "FF628557-9C20-403e-AE70-9A3EF6C312EE"
print rs.IsObject(System.Guid.Parse(strID))

Could find anything described anywhere, so I wrote a brute force routine. It’s ugly but it works:

Function GetObjectGUID(strFindID) 'GUID is a specially formatted string = Globally Unique Identifiers
	'Turns a txt string identifier into a valid object GUID string
	'Returns Null if not found
	Dim strID
	Dim AllRhinoObjects
	GetObjectGUID = Null
	AllRhinoObjects = Rhino.AllObjects(False, False, False)
	If IsArray(AllRhinoObjects) Then
		For Each strID In AllRhinoObjects
			If Rhino.IsObjectValid(strID) Then
				If lcase(strID) = lcase(strFindID) Then
					GetObjectGUID = strID
					Exit For
				End If
			End If
		Next
	End If
	
End Function