Feature Request: Remove ellipsis

[Neal Krawetz]

Long values are often printed truncated with "[...]".
Using -n will show the full values, but also removes the human-readable text values.
I want the human-readable values, but with the full values (not truncated with [...]).

Looking over the code:
Exif.pm uses: $tval = substr($tval,0,28) . '[...]' if length($tval) > 32;
Other pm files use > 60.
The exact lengths are hard-coded.

Command to find all of the truncation code:
  grep '\[\.\.\.\]' *.pm

Can you either:
(A) Give a command-line option to omit the ellipsis and show the entire value?
and/or
(B) Give a command-line option to specify the max line length prior to truncating?

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Neal,

All of the values are limited to 60 characters (except for Unknown Sony encrypted tags which were limited to 65).  The 32-byte limits are for -htmlDump tooltips.

I'll add an API LimitLongValues option to allow you to set the length limit to whatever you want, but it won't affect the limit in the tooltips.

- Phil

[Neal Krawetz]

That sounds great. Thank you.
(This is related to the exif 0x9999 json field. The [...] means I can't decode it.)

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Neal,

There should be no Exif_0x9999 tag as of ExifTool 12.72.  In this version the tag is extracted as XiaomiSettings (only if requested) with no line-limit, and the JSON is parsed to extract individual tags.

- Phil

[Neal Krawetz]

Ah...  I haven't run regression testing for 12.72 yet. I was going to do that this weekend.
(I run about 100,000 pictures through ExifTool and then identify everything that changed.)