Re^2: Detect file sequences in File:Find results

--->What does the preprocess sub do?

It sorts the directory results so that the unpadded sequences comes back in the correct order. Without it the sequence comes back looking like this:

image_sequenceA.1.tif
image_sequenceA.11.tif
image_sequenceA.12.tif
image_sequenceA.13.tif
image_sequenceA.14.tif
image_sequenceA.15.tif
image_sequenceA.16.tif
image_sequenceA.17.tif
image_sequenceA.18.tif
image_sequenceA.19.tif
image_sequenceA.2.tif
image_sequenceA.20.tif
image_sequenceA.3.tif
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Which would make the sequence detection incorrect. It also handles the cases where there are files with the same name but different extension like this:

image_sequenceA.1.tif
image_sequenceA.2.tif
image_sequenceA.3.tif
image_sequenceA.1.exr
image_sequenceA.2.exr
image_sequenceA.3.exr
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So the preprocess sub is necessary in my case unless I can do the same sort somewhere else

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Re^3: Detect file sequences in File:Find results by johngg (Canon) on Jan 21, 2013 at 15:38 UTC
so that the unpadded sequences comes back in the correct order You may have a reason for the order you chose but I would have thought it made more sense order things so that the number part of the filename was sorted numerically, not lexically. That way you get two runs rather than one run and four singletons from the example you post. `image_sequenceA.1.tif image_sequenceA.2.tif image_sequenceA.3.tif image_sequenceA.11.tif image_sequenceA.12.tif image_sequenceA.13.tif image_sequenceA.14.tif image_sequenceA.15.tif image_sequenceA.16.tif image_sequenceA.17.tif image_sequenceA.18.tif image_sequenceA.19.tif image_sequenceA.20.tif` [download] I hope this is of interest. Cheers, JohnGG	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Detect file sequences in File:Find results
by johngg (Canon) on Jan 21, 2013 at 15:38 UTC

so that the unpadded sequences comes back in the correct order

You may have a reason for the order you chose but I would have thought it made more sense order things so that the number part of the filename was sorted numerically, not lexically. That way you get two runs rather than one run and four singletons from the example you post.

image_sequenceA.1.tif
image_sequenceA.2.tif
image_sequenceA.3.tif
image_sequenceA.11.tif
image_sequenceA.12.tif
image_sequenceA.13.tif
image_sequenceA.14.tif
image_sequenceA.15.tif
image_sequenceA.16.tif
image_sequenceA.17.tif
image_sequenceA.18.tif
image_sequenceA.19.tif
image_sequenceA.20.tif
[download]

I hope this is of interest.

Cheers,

JohnGG

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