Any way to NOT pad when using sized field names?

tbessie · Post by **tbessie** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 4:10 am

If I am AutoOrganize'ing my collection, and I want to limit a field to N characters, but I don't want to pad the field with spaces or 0s, is that possible?

That is, for example, let's say I have 2 titles:

MyShortTitle
MyVeryLongTitleThatGoesOnForALongWhile

And I want "<Title:15>" to yield files called (exactly, minus the quotes) "MyShortTitle" and "MyVeryLongTitle".

Can this be done?

- Tim

tbessie · Post by **tbessie** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:37 am

Is there a way to do this? And is it planned for the next release, if not?
Not too tough to add a truncation tag to your syntax.

- Tim

Post by **jiri** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:26 am

It certainly makes sense, added to our to-do list for the next version.

Jiri

Teknojnky · Post by **Teknojnky** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:37 am

jiri wrote:It certainly makes sense, added to our to-do list for the next version.

Jiri

Thanks for the update!

I also posted about this issue @ http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... y+truncate

tbessie · Post by **tbessie** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:45 pm

I was wondering if this was part of what was done in 2.5.3. Not quite sure, from reading the release notes.

- Tim

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:44 pm

MediaMonkey 2.5.3 seems to trim all trailing spaces, so there are never spaces at the end of a field anymore.
That way, your padding problem seems to be fixed.

Cheers
Steegy

Teknojnky · Post by **Teknojnky** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:58 pm

It still seems to add spaces to both the end and beginning of files for me.

I do wish it was fixed tho, so annoying, I just want (only) long fields *truncated*... NOT Padded...

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:35 pm

Ooooops, my fault. I checked Auto-tag instead of Auto-organise :-/

Any way to NOT pad when using sized field names?

Any way to NOT pad when using sized field names?

Anyone?

Just checking -- is this in 2.5.3?