Unfortunately itemList is an enum/integer so that did not help as you cant pass it a filename. so are forced to get everything in one go i.e. all selected files. If it was possible to pass an individual filename that would allow the returned string to be tokenised and used in a suitable way.
I ended up with this:-
The strings are padded correctly for the filenames so ignore the output in the post as they appear misaligned.
Q. could this have been more efficient, I did it using report because in future I may wish to get file properties,
so a practice exercise.. in this case I wanted Size KBR would there have been another way to get the file properties based on the filename, such as those available to report.. without creating a rounded up version of file bytes.
All help/critique welcomed - I am still learning.
// Generate hash reports for selected files
$mdFiveHash = Array();
// want KB rounded - would like to use something like ::#105 for each individual filename, and be able to get individual items
$reportData = report("#{# @}, {Size KBR}<crlf>", 1);
$pathnames = get("SelectedItemsPathNames","|");
// Loop through each part, extract filename, and find max length
foreach($part, $pathnames, "|") {
$fileName = getpathcomponent($part, "file"); // Extract filename
$length = strlen($fileName);
// max length, min(), max() functions
if ($length > $maxLength) {
$maxLength = $length;
}
// get MD5 hash
$hashvalue = hash("md5", $part,3);
// create a string list
$mdFiveHash = "$mdFiveHash$fileName,$hashvalue|";
}
// string list hack, find a better way to not add the final '|' to the string
$mdFiveHash = substr($mdFiveHash, 0, strlen($mdFiveHash) - 1);
$index = 1; // awkward
foreach($value, $mdFiveHash, "|") {
// Extract individual values
$file = gettoken($value, 1, ",");
// why no get next token
$hash = gettoken($value, 2, ",");
// forced to do this as "$file<pad $maxLength>,$hash" is not interpreted correctly
$replaceWith = "$file<pad $maxLength>".", ".$hash;
$reportData = replace("$reportData","#$index","$replaceWith");
$index++; // messy something like python enumerate would be better
}
copytext "$reportData";
// output
Notifications.database, 9fe8cb79ae2e085e9e73ea049823d4a6, 1 KB
Notifications.state , 421fcc6cd8093eadf6daef6509d76430, 1 KB
TidyTabs.data , bb7649e53dbb83fd435fea70c0997b79, 1 KB
appreciated