Topic: Evaluate a sub expression / Store results for re-use
I hope you are still open for new ideas. If they are to wired, please feel free to drop them!!!
Evaluate a sub expression / Store results
Idea:
I don't know if that makes sense to you or if that can be implemented
in the way you have coded Siren, but here is the idea:
Calculate the result on a PART of the file name.
%(siren expression)
%#(siren expression)
%#(%b(9,10)_%nc)
Example: Add counter if signs 9 till 18 are same
%b(1,8) %#(%b(9,10)_%nc).%e
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
Store some parts or results.
I had the problem, that after my first evalution, I can't no longer access parts of the origin name.
So me thinking about storing parts for later reuse.
%[name:siren expression]
%[name:siren expression] is a named Siren capture group to store the currently evaluated result
%[name] will insert the value of the Siren capture group named 'name', if any. Else nothing.
Examples, store part for later use:
Swap file name parts
%[one:%b(1,8)]; %[two:%b(9,10)]; %[two]%[one].%e
or
%[one:%b(1,8)]; %[two:%b(9,10)_%nc]; %[one]%[two].%e
or
Swap file name parts
%[one:%b(9,10)_%nc]; %b(1,8)%[one].%e
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
Here is the callenge:
IMG_101_2015-05-15 <
IMG_102_2015-05-15
IMG_103_2015-05-17 <
IMG_104_2015-05-18 <
IMG_105_2015-05-19 <
IMG_106_2015-05-19
IMG_107_2015-05-19
I would like to rename at the end as follows:
IMG_101_2015-05-15_001 <-- #1 for day 15
IMG_102_2015-05-15_002
IMG_103_2015-05-17_001 <-- #1 for day 17
IMG_104_2015-05-18_001 <-- #1 for day 18
IMG_105_2015-05-19_001 <-- #1 for day 19
IMG_106_2015-05-19_002
IMG_107_2015-05-19_003
How would you solve this, without external scripting?