New to EXIFTOOL but I've been meaning to check it out for awhile now. Client request has given me the chance.
Client uses extremely long file names.
Ex: 122618_C_2314_WLB_HotColdTherapyWrap_BackJoint_Overhead.tif
They would like to parse this filename and write to custom WebNative fields as the following:
DisplayDate: 122618
ProductClass: C
ItemCode: 2314
TrademarkAbbreviation: WLB
ProductDescription: HotColdTherapyWrap
Varietal: BackJoint
ShootingDirection: Overhead
I am assuming I would only be able to get up til and including TrademarkAbbreviation because those are known and concistant lengths. ProductDescription will vary and would be next to impossible to extract.
Can I get some help on where to begin though?
Much appreciated
It may be easier to do this with user-defined Composite tags, but here is a command that will do it directly (assuming you have defined all of the necessary tags that you want to write):
exiftool -@ my.args DIR
with this my.args file:
-DisplayDate<${filename;my @a=split /_/; $_=$a[0]}
-ProductClass<${filename;my @a=split /_/; $_=$a[1]}
-ItemCode<${filename;my @a=split /_/; $_=$a[2]}
-TrademarkAbbreviation<${filename;my @a=split /_/; $_=$a[3]}
-ProductDescription<${filename;my @a=split /_/; $_=$a[4]}
-Varietal<${filename;my @a=split /_/; $_=$a[5]}
-ShootingDirection<${filename;my @a=split /_/; $_=$a[6]; s/\.[^.]+$//}
All I did was split the filename at each "_". The only trick was you need to remove the extension from the last one.
- Phil