Re: Automatic file numbering ideas...
Re: Automatic file numbering ideas...
- Subject: Re: Automatic file numbering ideas...
- From: Jean-Nicolas Jolivet <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:00:38 -0500
You're right, hadn't thought of that! Well, I'll implement it like
that for now but I'll keep an eye on this thread, see if anyone has a
better idea! :)
On 23-Nov-08, at 1:55 PM, Andrew Merenbach wrote:
Hi,
I used something pretty much identical in a program of mine, but
quickly realized that, although it worked, it wasn't scalable enough
-- it made me feel a little uneasy. For instance, if you are saving
a file over a slow network, it'll have to check each file's
existence every time -- but it could take significantly longer for
each file in such a case. I'm not sure what would be best,
frankly. I hope that someone else will chime in with a built-in
solution!
Best,
Andrew
On Nov 23, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet wrote:
mmm I guess I'm a little slow today hehe...
something like this would probably work (pseudo-code):
cnt = 1
filename = "Picture " + cnt
while(file exist (filename))
cnt ++
On 23-Nov-08, at 1:45 PM, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet wrote:
I would love to implement something like the default screenshot
utility for OS X does when it names its pictures.. (i.e. Picture
1, Picture 2, Picture 3.. etc.)
I was wondering if there's already something in place to do that?
If not, I don't mind implementing it myself but I can't really
think of a simple way to do it? Counting the files in a directory
is not really a reliable way to do it (i.e. if you have Picture 2
and Picture 3 in a directory, your count is 2... try naming your
new picture Picture 3 and it overwrites the existing Picture 3 ...)
I'm fairly good with RegEx so it would be easy to parse filenames
for numbers I guess but it seems a little overkill for such a
trivial task... (especially since my app wouldn't use Regex for
anything else so, I dont want to add a regex framework just for
that)...
Any ideas would be appreciated?
Jean-Nicolas Jolivet
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http://www.silverscripting.com
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