File name / Folder name select

[Stefan]

selectitems $folder + $base;

What should that do? Keep the file selected AND select the corresponding folder additionally too?

Then just take a look into the help about scripting:

//Syntax:
//selectitems itemlist, [flags], [focusfirst=1], [mode], [pane]

mode
n: [Default] New selection (drop current selections).
a: Add the matches to any current selections.
r: Remove the matches from any current selections.

And adjust the code to:

selectitems $folder , , , a;


Select your file and execute this code:

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if(exists("<curitem>") == 1){
     $base = "<curbase>";
     $folder = "$base-files";

     //selectitems itemlist, [flags], [focusfirst=1], [mode], [pane]
     selectitems $folder , , , a;
  }else{msg "this is not a file";}

Or in short

Select your file and execute this code:

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  if(exists("<curitem>") == 1){
     selectitems "<curbase>-files" , , , a;
  }else{msg "this is not a file";}

If you don't understood what this does, you may want to read the first posts from the scripting forum and the help file about scripting.

[CookieMonster]

Stefan it works nice except it only selects one pair of files & folders. In other words I select a file called <acme35> running the script selects the folder called <acme34>-files. One pair, if I select (20) files and the script is suppose to find the matching folders the script won't do this.

[Stefan]

Stefan it works nice except it only selects one pair of files & folders.
In other words I select a file called <acme35> running the script selects the folder called <acme34>-files.
One pair, if I select (20) files and the script is suppose to find the matching folders the script won't do this.

That is correct.
That is how THIS script works.
( and please see how many effort I have put into formatting your post, to be able to better get what you want
That's how I suspect others to format there post, especial if they asking for help )



If you want something other, you have to tell what you want and how you want it to work.


In this example: how would you work?
Do you want to
- select more than one file by hand
- execute the script, and every selected files AND the corresponding folders are become selected too?

Then we would just put something like this


$FILES = get("SelectedItemsPathNames", "|");
foreach( $file, $FILES){

}

around the script.


That would result in such working script:

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  //get list of names of all selected files:
  $FILES = get("SelectedItemsPathNames", "|");

  //for each file in the list, do something:
  foreach( $file, $FILES){

      //if this is a file (and not a folder):
      if(exists($file) == 1){

         //get the base name (without extension):
         $base =  getpathcomponent($file, "base");
         //add the string '-files':
         $folder = "$base-files";
         //additionally select the corresponding folders too:
         selectitems "$folder" , , , a;
      }
  }

Or do you think about something different?

There are probably work flows I am not thinking off. So tell us what and how.

[CookieMonster]

Not only does the script work, but I have some insight into scripting within XYplorer, that's not to say I'm able to make amazing works of code, but it helps to have some light, then no light

Thank you !