$left() problem

General Discussion
1

Hello. I'm trying to extract a composer name ("Tippett") from a title:

Tippett - The Blue Guitar - I. Medium Slow - Slow

I'm using:

$left(%title%,($strchr(%title%,-))

but I'm getting errors. However if I try $strchr(%title%,-) alone, I get a result of 9 (I realize I have to subtract 2 from the result, but first I need to get the result "Tippett -"

What am I doing wrong?

2

Too many brackets:
$left(%title%,$strchr(%title%,-))

What about "Guess value" for TITLE
Guessing pattern: %composer% - %title%

3
$left('Tippett - The Blue Guitar - I. Medium Slow - Slow',$sub($strstr('Tippett - The Blue Guitar - I. Medium Slow - Slow',' -'),1)) $left(%TITLE%,$sub($strstr(%TITLE%,' -'),1))

... or ...
Action "Guess values"
Source format: %TITLE%
Forrmatstring: %ARTIST% - %DUMMY%

DD.20150401.1609.CEST

4

Why don't you use an action of the type "Guess Value" or the converter "Filename - Tag":

Format String: %composer% - %dummy%