Fellow Perl Monks,

I come to you with a question that has been troubling me for the past hours. The problem itself is:

INPUT: (directory structure)

clocks001.jpg clocks002.jpg clocksvert001.jpg clocksvert002.jpg
clocksvertred001.jpg daisies001.jpg ...

I need to deduce category, subcategories and image numbers (I already solved that part) from the filenames without external database usages and then output it to a MySQL database through DBI.

The ideal output would consist of something like this;

clocks001.jpg -> category: clocks; subcats: null/null IM#: 001
clocks002.jpg -> category: clocks; subcats: null/null IM#: 002
clocksvert001.jpg -> category: clocks; subcats: vert/1 IM#: 001
clocksvert002.jpg -> category: clocks; subcats: vert/1 IM#: 002
clocksvertred001.jpg -> category: clocks; subcats: vert/1 red/1 IM#: 001 (vert is subcat 1 under clocks, red is subcat 1 under vert)

and so on.

Thanks for sharing your wisdom.

In reply to Directory Structure parsing by bscheiman

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