Getting family names by string

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probably something here will help you replace your list of string with framing types.

Replace Multiple Structural Framing Types

Hello Everyone, I imported new Structural Framing types into Revit from a 3rd party software. Now I would like to replace all elements assigned to one of these types into a Revit “standard” types. For instance, I now have a Revit project with structural framing elements of the following types: UPE_140_test IPE_160_test IPE_180_test IPE_220_test HE_A_80_test HE_A_120_test and I would like to replace all elements from these types to the following “original” types of Revit: UPE140 IPE160 IPE…

And then use the be mentioned method w the code block x[1,2,3, etc…] to pull out the item you want from that list.