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Re: Text items


  • Subject: Re: Text items
  • From: "Fleisher, Ken" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:25:41 -0500
  • Thread-topic: Text items

Kai,

Thanks for that clever script. I'm still trying to figure out exactly how it
works, but it does work and is just the sort of thing I was looking for.

I had tried to simplify my question and didn't give the full story though. I
tried to adapt your routine to what I need, but couldn't manage to get it to
work. I kept getting an empty list as a result!

Here's what I actually need to parse. Possible filenames are in the formats:

231-001_M.tif
231-001.tif
231-001.jpg

231-001-a_M.tif
231-001-a.tif
231-001-a.jpg

In these cases, I am looking to parse out "231-001" from the first 3 files
and "231-001-a" from the second 3 files. These are the only formats the
names will be, but the length of the portion that needs to be parsed is not
constant.

So besides stripping the ".xxx" extension, I need to strip "_M" if present.
How could I adapt your method to include this? As I said before, right now I
am just looping through every file. It's not necessarily too slow, I just
want to learn how to do it better.

Thanks a ton!

Ken



On 1/16/07 2:50 PM, "kai" <email@hidden> wrote:

> While the following routine still uses a repeat loop, it will repeat
> only as many times as there are different name extensions -
> regardless of how many filenames are actually involved.


--
Ken Fleisher

Photographer
Imaging & Visual Services
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.

Phone: (202) 712-7471
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