Re: Sorting files, making folders
Re: Sorting files, making folders
- Subject: Re: Sorting files, making folders
- From: Steen Villumsen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 11:41:10 +0200
Den 5/1/03 9:41 AM, skrev "David Hood" <email@hidden>:
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On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 06:58 PM, Steen Villumsen wrote:
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> Here's the deal, I have a lot (about 700) images with names like:
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> A12345-06
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> The last two digits in the filename refers to a pagenumber.
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> Now here's the tricky part (well, tricky for a newbie like myself). I
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> wan't
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> my script to make a folder called "Page 01" and put all the files
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> whose name
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> ends with 01 in there.
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Well, as a start (and putting aside if there are .whatever suffixes and
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the effect they might have), here is a snippet for working out the
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folder to go to from a single file name end:
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set anyOldFile to (choose file) as string
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set destinationFolderName to "Page " & (characters -2 through -1 of
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anyOldFile as string)
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return destinationFolderName
When I use the snippet and choose a file with the name "A12345-01" the
result is "Page pg"... Shouldn9t the result be "Page 01" or am I missing
something?
Regards,
Steen Villumsen
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