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Trim or extract substring from "$INFO[ListItem.Label]"? - Psychobob - 2015-01-26
Greetings!
Within a skin's xml are you able to trim labels (or perform string manipulations)?
What I have is a set of filenames similar to "<REFERENCE_NO>-<TITLE>-<SOMETHING_ELSE>.mkv" (which is returned when you use $INFO[Listitem.Label] I believe). At the moment these are listed out like this and it is workable but I wanted to edit things so that I can split this up with carriage returns making it easier to visualize. So it would instead look more like:-
<TITLE>
<REFERENCE_NO>-<SOMETHING_ELSE>
However I haven't quite figured out if this is possible and if it is how you would do this. This isn't information that is in separate tags nor a library (for reasons I won't go into, I don't use a library), it's literally just in the filenames.
Am I overlooking something trivial?
I've searched for substring (which is a conditional check only type statement I believe) or trim but no luck so far. Hoping the veterans would be able to throw me a bone and help me out.
Thanks in advance
RE: Trim or extract substring from "$INFO[ListItem.Label]"? - phil65 - 2015-01-26
not possible, no methods available to manipulate strings on skin level.
RE: Trim or extract substring from "$INFO[ListItem.Label]"? - Psychobob - 2015-01-26
Dang, thanks for the quick reply.