Extracting words from within a caption as filenames

[davidmullen]

Hi Folks,

I use Photo Mechanic Plus Version 6.0, build 6097 (85d1687). In sports photography, I have to rename images with the surnames of the players involved. For example, lets say David Mullen (Ireland) and Jack Dillon (UK) are depicted in an image. I use the "Object Field" as the filename field and manually type Mullen_Dillon as the filename, but I wonder if there is a way to achieve this through variables or variable substrings. I`ve searched the forum and googled variations of what I want, but no luck.
Any Ideas?

David

[Kirk Baker]

David,

I use Photo Mechanic Plus Version 6.0, build 6097 (85d1687). In sports photography, I have to rename images with the surnames of the players involved. For example, lets say David Mullen (Ireland) and Jack Dillon (UK) are depicted in an image. I use the "Object Field" as the filename field and manually type Mullen_Dillon as the filename, but I wonder if there is a way to achieve this through variables or variable substrings. I've searched the forum and googled variations of what I want, but no luck.

While there is Variable Substring Extraction, it would require getting the offset into the caption (and the length of each name) just right.  I doubt it would be any faster than simply using copy and paste.

No other methods come to mind.

-Kirk

[davidmullen]

Thanks Kirk,

I found a workaround by amending the code replacement file to give me surnames only. Thanks for your help.

David