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Re: How to Show Folders within a Tree without Parents or Subfolders with a Regexp
Posted: 15 Aug 2018 12:17
by highend
So you want to see only folders that contain files (but not the files itself)...
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$path = <curpath>;
$files = quicksearch("/f", $path);
$folders = regexreplace($files, "[^\\]*?(?=\r?\n|$)");
$folders = formatlist($folders, "de", <crlf>);
paperfolder("Folders_with_Files", $folders);
You need to add the path column to the paperfolder view, so that displayed subfolders get their real context, though...
Re: How to Show Folders within a Tree without Parents or Subfolders with a Regexp
Posted: 15 Aug 2018 12:49
by pdupreez
highend wrote:So you want to see only folders that contain files (but not the files itself)...
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$path = <curpath>;
$files = quicksearch("/f", $path);
$folders = regexreplace($files, "[^\\]*?(?=\r?\n|$)");
$folders = formatlist($folders, "de", <crlf>);
paperfolder("Folders_with_Files", $folders);
You need to add the path column to the paperfolder view, so that displayed subfolders get their real context, though...
Thanks, learned about PaperFolders too....
I ended up with this:
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$path = "N:\RoughTagged\";
$files = quicksearch("/f", $path);
$folders = regexreplace($files, "[^\\]*?(?=\r?\n|$)");
$folders = formatlist($folders, "de", <crlf>);
paperfolder("FoldersWithoutSubfolders", $folders);
That however goes down to the nth level of all the folders in current path, and give me those folders as output, like such
Current:/Folder1/Sub 1/Sub 2/Files
Current:/Folder2/Sub 1/Sub 2/Files
Current:/Folder3/Files
and gives me in PaperFolder
Current:/Folder1/Sub 1/Sub 2/
Current:/Folder2/Sub 1/Sub 2/
Current:/Folder3/
instead of only
Current:/Folder3/
as per screenshot
Re: How to Show Folders within a Tree without Parents or Subfolders with a Regexp
Posted: 15 Aug 2018 12:52
by jupe
With your example above if you are positioned in this path, "Drive:/Current Dir/" and used this in the XY address bar:
it should do what you want too, if I am understanding correctly.
Re: How to Show Folders within a Tree without Parents or Subfolders with a Regexp
Posted: 15 Aug 2018 12:56
by highend
So why don't you say that in the first place, that the scan depth needs a limitation?
So you could also follow jupes advice and do it like this (because it seems you don't want to use <curpath> but a fixed one):
Re: How to Show Folders within a Tree without Parents or Subfolders with a Regexp
Posted: 15 Aug 2018 12:59
by pdupreez
jupe wrote:With your example above if you are positioned in this path, "Drive:/Current Dir/" and used this in the XY address bar:
it should do what you want too, if I am understanding correctly.
Wow, that is awesome. Found 547 folders in a flash.
Now if I only know what it means (My problem, I will go and read up). Thanks to you and highend
Thanks a lot
Re: How to Show Folders within a Tree without Parents or Subfolders with a Regexp
Posted: 15 Aug 2018 13:15
by pdupreez
pdupreez wrote:jupe wrote:With your example above if you are positioned in this path, "Drive:/Current Dir/" and used this in the XY address bar:
it should do what you want too, if I am understanding correctly.
Wow, that is awesome. Found 547 folders in a flash.
Now if I only know what it means (My problem, I will go and read up). Thanks to you and highend
Thanks a lot
For posterity, the code can be well understood through the help file. In any case, I understood it as follow:
<curpath> Work on Current Path
? Search
/md=1 Maximum Depth of search
/d Only find Folders
x switch to only return folders that don't contain any matching items
Very neat