Trimming ALL does not work like it does for FILENAME

[Zerow]

I want to remove all pauses at the beginning and end of fields


So if

Format value "_FILENAME": "$trim(%_FILENAME%)"

works for FILENAME, then why does

Format value "_ALL": "$trim(%_ALL%)"

works for none of the fields?


Yes, I can use Replace with regular expression for removing one pause

Regular expression "_ALL": "^\s" -> ""

Regular expression "_ALL": "\s$" -> ""

but how about removing multiple white spaces stacked together?

[ohrenkino]

I think that _ALL refers to all TAG fields - and as the filename is a file property for the file system, it does not part of tags.

but how about removing multiple white spaces stacked together?

see the Howtos:

Actions and batch-operations

How to remove/trim leading and trailing spaces Video tutorial for these actions Leading spaces: Action type: Replace with regular expressions Field: _TAG Regular expression: ^\s+ Replace matches with: ^ matches the beginning of the string. Then \s+ searches for all whitespaces till a different char occurs. The whitespaces found will be replaced by nothing and, thus, deleted. Trailing spaces: Action type: Replace with regular expressions Field: _TAG Regular expression: \s+$ Replace matc…

[Zerow]

[...]see the Howtos:
Actions and batch-operations

Thank you. I now use
Regular expression "_ALL": "^\s+" -> ""

Regular expression "_ALL": "\s+$" -> ""

Format value "_FILENAME": "$trim(%_FILENAME%)"


But the stange thing is that

Regular expression "_ALL": "^\s+" -> ""

works also for FILENAME [removing all the leading spaces in it], but

Regular expression "_ALL": "\s+$" -> ""

does not [leaving all the trailing spaces]

And that

Format value "_FILENAME": "$trim(%_FILENAME%)"

is suppose to take out only what is at the beginning and not also that what is at the end - and yet this one line of code takes care of both