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Posted: **12 Sep 2012 02:14**

Hi there,

I see the get(selecteditems...) command is only for paths and fullnames. What would be the equivalent to return selected items basenames?

Or how would I use get("curitem", "base") in a foreach loop?

Or maybe I'm going about everything the wrong way. I want to create new txt files named after selected item's basenames (obviously to avoid the selected item's extension being included in the txt filename).

I've tried this but it includes the extension in the new name:

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$lst = get(selecteditemsnames);

 foreach($tk, $lst, "<crlf>",) {
  copytext "$tk";
  new("<clipboard>.txt");

  }

And this doesn't include the extension but it only works on the last selected item:

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$lst = get("curitem", "base");

 foreach($tk, $lst, "<crlf>",) {
  copytext "$tk";
  new("<clipboard>.txt");

  }

Posted: **12 Sep 2012 06:51**

If you use

::msg get("SelectedItemsPathNames");
or
::msg get("SelectedItemsNames");

you have to write code to extract the wanted parts from that full strings.

To just get the base of the selected items use

::msg report("{basename}"|,1);

Here each item is separated by an '|' to fit the standard of the foreach loop.

You could also use for example something like:

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 $a="";
 while(true){
  if ("<curbase>"==""){break;}
  $a = $a . "<curbase>|";
  //msg "<curbase>",1;
  sel "+1";
 }
 text $a;
 //foreach($item, $a){ ...}

Find more info about that into the help and inspect a few
other scripts from the script forum to see examples how it works.

Posted: **12 Sep 2012 08:33**

Just use getpathcomponent() to extract specific parts from a file / foldername in you foreach loop.

Posted: **12 Sep 2012 08:47**

Hi'
I just saw that highend beat me to it

There's probably other ways but this (verbose) one should suit you:

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  foreach($myitem, get("SelectedItemsPathNames", "|"), "|") {
    $mytextfile=getpathcomponent($myitem, "base");
    new("$mytextfile.txt");    
  }

Posted: **12 Sep 2012 09:11**

You can make it one line shorter:

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foreach($myitem, get("SelectedItemsPathNames", "|"), "|") {
    new(getpathcomponent($myitem, "base") . ".txt");    
  }

Posted: **13 Sep 2012 01:50**

Thanks everyone!!! Perfecto

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How to get ("selecteditemsnames") for "basenames" only

How to get ("selecteditemsnames") for "basenames" only

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