[Solved] Renaming with LensModel

[carella]

Hi
First of all, thank you for this fantastic tool.
My concern is to add the LensModel to my filenames
For that I execute
      exiftool '-filename<%f_${LensModel}.%e' .
The expected result is a filename like
      "myfilename_EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS"
Instead of this the command creates a directory
      myfilename_EF-S18-55mm f
and puts in this directory the file
     3.5-5.6 IS

I understand what happens : the substring "f/" (not sure it is a /) should mean "create a directory"

How to avoid this behavior ?

Thanks

[carella]

Sorry I remembered that I made the change (a long time ago !) for this to work.
I defined a MyLensModel in the file .Exiftool_config

For those who are concerned here is the list of the config file

%Image::ExifTool::UserDefined = (
   'Image::ExifTool::Composite' => {
        MyShutterSpeedValue => {
           Require => 'ShutterSpeedValue',
           ValueConv => '$prt[0] =~ tr/\// /; $prt[0]',
        },
        MyLensModel => {
           Require => 'LensModel',
           ValueConv => '$prt[0] =~ tr/\// /; $prt[0]',
        },
}
)

[Phil Harvey]

Yes.  The user-defined tags were the only solution at one time.

But as of ExifTool 9.15, you can also do this on the command line:

exiftool '-filename<%f_${LensModel;tr(/)( )}.%e' .

Here I have used different delimiters for tr to avoid the problem of having to escape the backslash that would have been needed to escape the slash.

- Phil

[carella]

Great news !
I will soon use this new feature.

Thanks

[carella]

Another question about this new syntax.
The tr() function is useful to change characters.
Is there a function to change strings ?

For exemple the ${model} tag returns something like
     Canon EOS 5D Mark II
I would like to change this to
     5DMKII

Of course I have a solution outside of exiftool (Ant Renamer for example) but it would be great to do this in the same exiftool command

Thank you in advance

[Phil Harvey]

Is there a function to change strings ?

Yes.  s(Canon EOS 5D Mark II)(5DMKII)

s = substitute
tr = translate

Google "Perl regular expressions" for more details.

- Phil