Update: I was incorrect about this. If you pass a string to a mapped function it passes the entire string, not each character individually. I don’t know what made me thing it worked. I wish it did, though…
I just discovered that you can send a string to a mapped function in MaxScript. The mapped function treats the string as an array and very quickly processes each character in the string through the function. It’s great for quickly finding and changing characters in a string.