Re: [Gprename-users] Instead of eliminating, it duplicate characters.

[Mario M. <mar...@gm...>]

Oh, thanks for the reply! I'm not with the time to report the bug right 
now... 😞

"My case" was just an example. My real case is to remove the last 
character of the name of the file. Eg:

IMG_1234_.jpg -> IMG_1234.jpg

What the regex would be?


El 14/7/23 a las 16:51, zu...@gm... escribió:
>
> I don't think it ever worked, it's a To Do in the code at line 1036 :)
>
> Someone should open a bug report about this, maybe someone will pick 
> it up in the future and fix it. I'm not gonna bother with it as I hate 
> GTK code now.
>
> In your case, there is other ways to achieve it. you could replace mp4 
> to mp
>
> Or you can use Replace with Regular expression : replace 4$ with nothing
>
>
> Just for reference, here's the code :
>
>       # Insert
>       if ( $insert_radio->get_active and $insert_entry->get_text ne '' ) {
>          my $insert_at = $insert_spin->get_value_as_int();
>          # TODO: There is an off by one insert here.
>          # If $insert_at == -1, we should insert the text at the end. 
> Not 1 from the end.
>          # This is because there is no such thing as "-0".
>          if ( $insert_at > length($new_name) or $insert_at < 
> (length($new_name)-(length($new_name)*2)) ) { $insert_at = 
> length($new_name); }
>          my $tmp_string1 = substr( $new_name, 0, $insert_at );
>          my $tmp_string2 = substr( $new_name, $insert_at, 
> length($new_name) );
>          $new_name = $tmp_string1 . $insert_entry->get_text . 
> $tmp_string2;
>       }
>
>       # Delete
>       elsif ( $delete_radio->get_active ) {
>          my $delete_to = $delete_btw2_spin->get_value_as_int();
>          my $delete_from = $delete_btw1_spin->get_value_as_int();
>          # TODO: Same off by one issue as in Insert.
>          if ( $delete_to > length($new_name) or $delete_to < 
> (length($new_name)-(length($new_name)*2)) ) { $delete_to = 
> length($new_name); }
>          my $tmp_string1 = substr( $new_name, 0, $delete_from );
>          my $tmp_string2 = substr( $new_name, $delete_to, 
> length($new_name) );
>          $new_name = $tmp_string1 . $tmp_string2;
>       }
>
>
>
> On 2023-07-12 19:40, Mario Mey wrote:
>>
>> Hi, there. If I want to remove the last character of the file name, I 
>> supposed to use negative numbers to achieve that. But, instead of 
>> doing that, it duplicate characters. Like this capture:
>>
>> Also, by using positive numbers in the second field, it duplicates 
>> that number of characters:
>>
>> Is this a bug? Is there any other way to achieve it?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
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