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Author Topic: Fill Properties from Filename - Escapes?  (Read 1501 times)

lowjoel

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Fill Properties from Filename - Escapes?
« on: June 19, 2012, 07:24:30 pm »

How do I tell MC to extract file name information when the file name's got a [ or ] character in them? MC thinks it's a tag and refuses to match the filename.
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marko

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Re: Fill Properties from Filename - Escapes?
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2012, 08:36:39 am »

Can you give a little more detail regarding what you are seeing exactly?

Without any escaping, it appears to be working OK at this end...


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Re: Fill Properties from Filename - Escapes?
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2012, 08:37:21 am »

Try assigning "Love" to a field. I'd do Your [Field name] [, but you'll find that MC ignores the expression.
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Re: Fill Properties from Filename - Escapes?
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2012, 08:44:30 am »

OK, I see what you mean...

You need to use the template method, then break the field down using the existing delimiters. For each word, separated by a space, that you wish to ignore, empty square brackets tell MC to ignore...


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Re: Fill Properties from Filename - Escapes?
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2012, 07:49:47 pm »

Thanks for that.
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lowjoel

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Re: Fill Properties from Filename - Escapes?
« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2012, 08:31:22 pm »

Oh, another thing just occurred to me. I don't need it yet, but thinking ahead -- what if I'd like to extract New Mix (without the square brackets?)
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marko

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Re: Fill Properties from Filename - Escapes?
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2012, 12:55:17 am »

You would use the square brackets as the delimiter...



If you simply entered [[comment]] into the template, all other fields would remain untouched, and comment would be populated with New Mix

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Re: Fill Properties from Filename - Escapes?
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2012, 01:04:09 am »

Sweet, I'd remember that.

Gems like these should be somewhere in the Wiki, or is it already?
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marko

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Re: Fill Properties from Filename - Escapes?
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2012, 01:11:44 am »

I'm honestly not sure. If you would like to add a page, you are welcome to use the images in this thread if needed.
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