Shorten a File Name?

[mamer2005]

I need to shorten a couple thousand file names from 16 characters to 7 plus the extension (i.e. from AB_1234-12341212.jgp to AB_1234.jgp). Is there a variable that will do this? The Filenamebase only takes the last characters from the name.

Thanks, Joe

[Kirk Baker]

Joe,

I need to shorten a couple thousand file names from 16 characters to 7 plus the extension (i.e. from AB_1234-12341212.jgp to AB_1234.jgp). Is there a variable that will do this? The Filenamebase only takes the last characters from the name.

{filenamebase} is the variable you want to use, but you'll need to use Variable Substring Extraction as explained here:

http://wiki.camerabits.com/en/index.php?title=User_Manual_Flat_View#Variable_Substring_Extraction

So in your case if you always need the first seven characters, you would use

{filenamebase:0,7}

HTH,

-Kirk

[mamer2005]

Thanks, Kirk!