How are you using Custom Columns?

[admin]

Here's something that might be useful one day. A column to sort names by the last name:

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The script:

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$base = getpathcomponent(<cc_name>, "base");
$lastname = gettoken($base, -1);
return $lastname;

Maybe you can share your favorite custom columns as well...

[SkyFrontier]

Here I am organizing cooking recipes

-they are written as plain .txt;
-Custom Columns are reading paragraphs 3 and 5, containing 'calories *** portions served', respectively.
-with proper left-alignment, they can be sorted 'by calories'.
-note the use of 'extra column' with rating stars.

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Caption: Calorias *** Porções
type: script

script:
$a = readfile("<cc_item>");
$b = gettoken("$a", 1, "<crlf>") . "***  " . gettoken("$a", 5, "<crlf>");
return "$b";

format: text
item type: files
filter: txt

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To get the fine line underlining your active file: 'tools > customize list > highlight selected rows'; you may then want to customize it under 'tools > configuration... > colors > list > selected rows', also (un)ticking 'underline selected rows' at 'tools > configuration... > styles'.

[admin]

Great, alignment fix is coming...

[autocart]

my first usage-example:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 15#p101620

[admin]

This column script returns 1 for all files where modified and created date are the same:

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Snip: CustomColumn 1
  XYplorer 13.90.0004, 03.04.2014 12:02:08
Action
  ConfigureColumn
Caption
  Mod=Create
Type
  3
Definition
  $mod = property("#3", <cc_item>);
  $create = property("#4", <cc_item>);
  if ($mod == $create) {
    return 1;
  }
Format
  0
Item Type
  0
Item Filter
  

To find all files where modified and created date are the same you simply add this column to the current list, and the run this name search:

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Mod=Create:1

You cannot do this with the normal Find Files interface.

[Marco]

Thank you Don, very helpful!
I used a script that scanned sequentially all the items in the List to find out those whose three timestamps are different. This approach is conceptually almost identical but more user friendly.