Looking for Filename Substring wdx

[JohnFredC]

Can anyone point me to a content plugin that would allow me to extract characters from the file name using a substring function?

I could write something like that myself but don't have the time to devote to another project just now.

Thanks for any help!

[Lefteous]

If you want to cut out a substring by start and end position you can already do this:

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tc.Name:3-4

[JohnFredC]

Thank you! Didn't know that!

Edit...

Well, the substring function works great, but the resulting column doesn't sort the way I expected.

Looks like the sorting of that column is still based on the filename itself, not the substring value. Too bad. In this particular situation for various reasons it's not feasible to rename the files and the file dates themselves do not reflect the file contents.

[tbeu]

Well, the substring function works great, but the resulting column doesn't sort the way I expected.

Confirmed in TC7RC5. I would consider this as a bug.
You might use the RegEx WDX instead which does a correct sorting.

[ghisler(Author)]

Currently it's not supported to sort by substrings, sorry.