sort by kind

[yusef88]

Can XY sort files by kind e.g. group videos, audio, office, text files together?

[highend]

Sure. Write a custom column script...

[yusef88]

may you please explain this?

[highend]

You need a script for a custom column that

- reads in all known generic file types - get("genericfiletype"...
- looks which gft the extension of the current item - <cc_item>
matches and return the gft name so you can sort with this column afterwards

Or you do the get("generic...
creation only one time, save it into a permanent variable and shorten the cc-script
to compare the extension with that list. Faster and more efficient because
the gfts change... very rarely^^

[yusef88]

Thanks for your interaction

this works fine as normal script

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    $Video = "mp4|mkv";
    $Image = "jpg|png";
    $ext = getpathcomponent(<curitem>, "ext"); 
    if ("|$Video|" LikeI "*|$ext|*") {echo "Video"}

but as custom column doesn't work

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    $Video = "mp4,mkv";
    $Image = "jpg,png";
    $ext = getpathcomponent(<cc_name>, "ext");
    if ("|$Video|" LikeI "*|$ext|*") {return video}
    if ("|Image|" LikeI "*|$ext|*") {return Image}

also I do not know how I should use this:

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get("genericfiletype", "{:Video}", "|");

I want custom column look like this

[highend]

Do you actually read your code?

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    $Video = "mp4,mkv";
    $Image = "jpg,png";
    $ext = getpathcomponent(<cc_name>, "ext");
    if ("|$Video|" LikeI "*|$ext|*") {return "Video";}
    if ("|Image|" LikeI "*|$ext|*") {return "Image";}

LikeI checks for | and you use , as a separator
Image is not a variable here
Quote your strings^^

[yusef88]

how to match folders?

[highend]

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exists()

[yusef88]

Final script and no need to quote variables.. thanks for your help

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    $ext = "<cc_ext>";

    $Video = get("genericfiletype", "{:Video}", "|");
    $Audio = get("genericfiletype", "{:Audio}", "|");
    $Image = get("genericfiletype", "{:Image}", "|");
    $Subtitle = "srt|ass|ssa|sub|smi|sup|lrc";
    $Text = get("genericfiletype", "{:Text}", "|");
    $Archive = get("genericfiletype", "{:Archive}", "|");
    $Office = get("genericfiletype", "{:Office}", "|");
    $Executable = get("genericfiletype", "{:Executable}", "|");
    $Web = get("genericfiletype", "{:Web}", "|");
    $Font = get("genericfiletype", "{:Font}", "|");

    if (<cc_isfolder> == 1) { return Folder }
    if ("|$Video|" LikeI "*|*.$ext|*") { return video }
    if ("|$Audio|" LikeI "*|*.$ext|*") { return Audio }
    if ("|$Image|" LikeI "*|*.$ext|*") { return Image }
    if ("|$Subtitle|" LikeI "*|$ext|*") { return Subtitle }
    if ("|$Text|" LikeI "*|*.$ext|*") { return Text }
    if ("|$Archive|" LikeI "*|*.$ext|*") { return Archive }
    if ("|$Office|" LikeI "*|*.$ext|*") { return Office }
    if ("|$Executable|" LikeI "*|*.$ext|*") { return Executable }
    if ("|$Web|" LikeI "*|*.$ext|*") { return Web }
    if ("|$Font|" LikeI "*|*.$ext|*") { return Font }
    if ($ext != "") { return Other }
    if ($ext = "*.") { return Unknown }
    

[highend]

and no need to quote variables

I didn't say quote your variables, I said "quote your strings" (which you aren't...)
And btw, why do you quote variables?

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$ext = "<cc_ext>";

<cc_ext> is a variable, no need to quote it in this context

While what you're doing here works, it is very inefficient.

1. Each single item in your list get's all genericfiletypes that you've defined here

Let's say you've generated a list like that (just for demonstration):

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Archive|7z,bz,bz2,cab,gz,Img,iso,lha,lzh,rar,tar,taz,tbz,tbz2,tgz,tz,wmz,wsz,yfs,z,zip,zipx
Audio|wav,mp3,mid,cda,au,ogg,ape,m4a,mpc,mp+,mpp,wma,asf,flac,aif,aiff,aifc,au,wv,wva
Executable|bat,cmd,com,exe,scr
Font|fon,ttf,otf,pfb,pfm
Image|gif,ico,cur,emf,wmf,png,bmp,dib,rle,tga,tpic,dds,hdr,pic,pict,jpg,jpeg,jpe,psb,psd,arw,cpt,cr2,crw,dcr,dng,erf,fff,mrw,mef,nef,nrw,orf,pef,raf,raw,rw2,rwl,sr2,srf,srw,x3f,tif,tiff
Office|cdr,csv,rtf,doc,dot,docm,docx,dotx,xls,xlt,xlsm,xlsx,xltx,ppt,pot,pps,pptx,potx,ppsx,odt,ods,odp,wpd,wpf,one,pdf,eps,jtx,xps,oxps,dwg,dwf,dwfx,dxf,easmx,edrwx,eprtx,sldprt,sldasm,slddrw,eml,msg,nws,zip
Photo|jpg,jpeg,jpe,tif,tiff,arw,cpt,cr2,crw,dcr,dng,erf,fff,mrw,mef,nef,nrw,orf,pef,raf,raw,rw2,rwl,sr2,srf,srw,x3f,tif,tiff,psb,psd
Text|adml,admx,ahk,asc,asp,aspx,au3,b64,bas,bat,c,htaccess,cer,cfg,cmd,cls,conf,config,cnt,ctl,cpp,crt,cs,css,cws,cue,dat,eml,filters,frm,h,hpp,htc,htm,html,ics,idl,inc,inf,ini,java,js,json,less,lng,log,lrc,lst,lua,m3u,m3u8,manifest,man,map,markdown,md,mht,mhtm,mhtml,mim,mk,msg,nfo,nsi,nws,odl,opml,php,pl,prj,py,pyw,rc,rdf,reg,resx,rst,scss,sh,sql,srt,tbl,txt,uue,url,utf8,vb,vbp,vbs,vbw,vcf,website,wpl,ws,xml,xsd,xsl,xslt,xxe,xys
Vector|ai,cdr,cgm,dwg,dwf,dwfx,dxf,emf,eps,epsf,pdf,ps,svf,svg,svgz,wmf,jtx,xps,oxps
Video|3gp,asf,avi,blend,divx,flv,mov,qt,mkv,mpg,mpeg,mpa,mpe,m1v,m2v,mp2,mp4,m4r,m4v,mpv,mpv2,mts,m2ts,ogm,ra,ram,rm,rmvb,vob,ts,webm,wmv
Web|htm,html,shtml,mht,mhtm,mhtml,php,php3,php4,php5,htaccess,cfg,inc,asp,aspx,xml,swf,svg,svgz,url,zip

Assign it as a permanent variable ($genericFileTypes)

And then the code for a cc can be shortened like that (missing your folder, other and unknown checks):

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    perm $genericFileTypes;
    $match = gettoken(regexmatches($genericFileTypes, "(^.*(\||,)<cc_ext>(,|$))", <crlf>), 1, <crlf>);
    return gettoken($match, 1, "|");

[yusef88]

clean and clever very thanks.