How to limit the lenght of episode title?

[SergeiAK]

People hi!
I have an issue with some series. My renaming scheme for episodes is - series name (year) S00E00 - episode name.
Sometimes episode names has very long length, and with windows limit of 256 symbols, i can't rename some files.
How to limit the length of episode title?

[rednoah]

Why though? Do you get an error message? What series / episode are you testing with?


You can take the first n characters from any given String value like so:

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{ t.take(5) }

Note that {t} is limited to ~150 characters by default. {plex} also limits the length of each file path component to ~247 characters by default.


AFAIK, historically, MAX_PATH was a thing, but no longer a thing since ~2016 / Windows Anniversary Update 1607. That said, FileBot does enforce a file path component limit of ~247 characters per folder name / file name for compatibility reasons.

[SergeiAK]

For example https://www.thetvdb.com/series/jamies-15-minute-meals
My string is:

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{drive}  Done/
{ country =~ "RU" ? 'Russian_TVshows' : { country =~ "SU" ? 'USSR_TVshows' : 'TVshows' } }/
{ny} {"{tvdb-$tvdbid}"}/
{episode.special ? 'Specials' : 'Season '+s.pad(2)}/
{ny} - {episode.special ? 'S00E'+special.pad(2) : s00e00} - {t+'.'} - 
[{vf}{'.'HDR+'.'}{'.'source}{' - '+group}]{" - CD$pi"}

I think Russian episode names are to long.

And yes, i had error message

[SergeiAK]

You can take the first n characters from any given String value like so:

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{ t.take(5) }

This is working as expected, thanks

[rednoah]

Note that {s00e00} gives you S00E01 for specials by default. Your custom code is unnecessarily complex / redundant, so you can just do:

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{ s00e00 }

Note that the outermost {...} is semantically completely different from any {...} within the Groovy context, so I would recommend not adding unnecessary Groovy {closures} as to avoid confusion:

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{ country =~ "RU" ? 'Russian_TVshows' : country =~ "SU" ? 'USSR_TVshows' : 'TVshows' }/

Note that you have incorrect code (e.g. {'.'HDR+'.'}{'.'HDR+'.'}{'.'source} are missing + operators) that always fails and thus does nothing. Even if the code were to work, it would still be expected to work / not work case by case depending on the file at hand, e.g. {hdr} being defined for some files but not others. You'll want to account for undefined bindings like so:

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{ vf }{ '.' + hdr }{ '.' + source }{ ' - ' + group }

When prototyping a custom format, you'll want to set aside a set of test files and ensure that your test files cover each corner case, i.e. a file where {hdr} works, a file where {source} works, one for country = RU, one for country = SU, etc, so that you can run tests easily as you prototype your custom format.

[SergeiAK]

Thanks for your advises, it will be very useful