Naming Scheme Question

[msb]

Hi,

I'd like to strip the word "The" in front of artists when creating the directory... for example:

The Doors -> Doors

I tried this, but it doesn't seem to be working:

[IFEQUALS][GRAB]1,3,artist[],The,[GRAB]5,[artist][][]


Any suggestions?

[Spoon]

I don't think it is possible, as your grab is putting the value into ifequals when it needs the tag name.

[msb]

Well... after a little thinking about it, I discovered that is is possible! :smile2:

What I needed was a way to know if the Artist tag began with a "The"... and since the IFEQUALS is looking for a tag name only in the firts element, I figured, why not hack the second one?

So, here's what I did:

[IFEQUALS]artist,The [DEL]1,4,[artist][],[TRIM][DEL]1,4,[artist][], The[][]

In the second element, I'm replacing the first four letters with the text "The ". If the artist tag already had the "The " at the beginning, then the values would be equal.

For example, let's use the arist tag of "The Doors":

[artist] = "The Doors"
[DEL]1,4,[artist][] = "Doors"
The [DEL]1,4,[artist][] = "The Doors"

They are equal ("The Doors" = "The Doors"), so insert the value in the third element:
[TRIM][DEL]1,4,[artist][], The[][] = "Doors, The"

(I used the [TRIM] function just in case there were any blank spaces... also, because I'm inserting a value of a comma (',') I didn't want to confuse the thing)

Here's an example of an artist that fails that test, "Led Zeppelin":
[artist] = "Led Zeppelin"
[DEL]1,4,[artist][] = "Zeppelin"
The [DEL]1,4,[artist][] = "The Zeppelin"

They are not equal ("Led Zeppelin" != "The Zeppelin"), so I don't insert the value.

[Spoon]

Very cleaver!