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[lowjoel]

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.

[marko]

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...


-marko

[lowjoel]

Try assigning "Love" to a field. I'd do Your [Field name] [, but you'll find that MC ignores the expression.

[marko]

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...


-marko

[lowjoel]

Thanks for that.

[lowjoel]

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?)

[marko]

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

-marko

[lowjoel]

Sweet, I'd remember that.

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

[marko]

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.