Replace function

[Zenta]

Hi

I wounder if it is possible to use a replace commande on a metadata field like

IPTC:Headline -= replace('Hello world','Hi phil')

So if IPTC:Headline is "Hello world!" it becomes "Hi phil!"

[Phil Harvey]

Yes:

exiftool -iptc:headline-="Hello world!" -iptc:headline="Hi phil!" FILE

- Phil

[Zenta]

I was more thinking about a replace string funktion.

Scenario:

We have a text like below.


"Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum."

Now i want to run a replce on all "but" words  with "Zenta" and all "was" words with "phil" in the same command to get the output below.

"Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, Zenta also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It Phil popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum."

[Phil Harvey]

Ah, right.  This is a bit more involved, but may be done with a user-defined tag.  See FAQ number 19 for details.

- Phil