Know the file extension and writing it to Metadata

[Dino]

I know that if Photo Mechanic is processing a file with the name of "DSC_0001.JPG" there are variable you can write to metadata such as variables like {filenamebase} which would be DSC_0001 and {filename} which would be DSC_0001.JPG but I want to write the extension of the file being processed for this example .JPG which would be great if there was a variable like {filenameext} file name extension.

Is there a method to know the extension of the file being processed.

Thanks,
Dino

[Bob M]

You could use substring extraction on {filename} to get the last three characters.

[Max Lemesh]

Yeah, something like that would be great.

You could use substring extraction on {filename} to get the last three characters.

except you can't use this variable in folder string in ingest

[Kirk Baker]

You could use substring extraction on {filename} to get the last three characters.

Specifically, use: {filename:-3}

-Kirk