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PCRE2Path.wdx64

A WDX x64 Unicode content plugin that splits the file name/path into fields based on matching (named) capture groups of a regular expression using PCRE2

Dependencies

  • MSVC 2022
  • vcpkg
  • vcpkg integrate install
  • vcpkg install pcre2:x64-windows-static-md

Config / Setup

strores config in (the default plugin INI location): %APPDATA%\GHISLER\ pcre2path.pat (if that fails: then in the same folder as the .wcx64)

The config (for now) is a text file containing the regexp which parses the pathname.

default/demo pattern:

(?xU)
^
(?:
    (?<Path>.*?)
    \\
)
(?:
    (?P<AlbumArtist>.*)
    \s+\-\s+
    (?P<AlbumTitle>.*)
    \s+\-\s+
)
(?:
    (?P<CatId>1605|H880|47|0055|753|SINDEX|TC|\d\d\d|[A-Z0-9]*?[A-Z]+?)
    (?P<CatNo>[0-9.]+?[A-Z.0-9]*|DL)
)
(?:
    \s+\+\s+
    (?P<Extra>.*)
)?
$

which breaks up ...Path\To\ArtistName - AlbumTitle - LBL01 + Misc format "tagged" file/folder naming into custom fields/colums:

[=pcre2path.$0]          => "...Path\To\ArtistName - AlbumTitle - LBL01 + Misc"
[=pcre2path.Path]        => "...Path\To"
[=pcre2path.AlbumArtist] => "ArtistName"
[=pcre2path.AlbumTitle]  => "AlbumTitle"
[=pcre2path.CatId]       => "LBL"
[=pcre2path.CatNo]       => "01"
[=pcre2path.Extra]       => "Misc"

($0 is the full match string, or the pcre error message)

Notes

The plugin tries to reload+recompile the pattern whenever it can (tc restart, tc custom column edit also seems to reload it, plus folder reload events), so you can refine the your on the go, but please be aware that adding new capturing groups without restarting TC may shift the indexes of the current loaded set.