PostProcessing with ! in filenames

[daneo]

Hi Sub,

I'm killing myself here trying to manage Windows batch processing of the completed recordings, and I'm using a lot of code with enabledelayedexpansion.

Unfortunately, recordings like

"H:\Recordings\Natürlich Blond! (2001)\Natürlich Blond! (2001).ts"

totally blow up because delayed expansion creates this string instead

"H:\Recordings\Natürlich Blond (2001).ts"

Is there any easy way to have NPVR remove some special characters from the filenames before recording starts?  Maybe a platform-independent replacement file so people can tune filenames as needed?

Thanks,
 Dane

[mvallevand]

It already removes characters that the filesystem doesn't like and removing the explanation mark would be wrong IMO

For you scripts consider

setlocal DISABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION

Martin

[daneo]

Yes, however won't work as I need to enable for a FOR loop, and that's the exact spot where the data is being cut out by the ! <stuff> ! combination. I have three options - totally rewrite my scripts, live with it, or ask Sub for an OS-independent option to "tune" filenames - for example

replace ! with ""
replace & with "and"
replace % with "_"
etc...

All are legal filename elements under Windows 10 and thoroughly trash batch file programming. You can work around some of them, but sometimes you get backed into a corner. The problem with the ! is that there are two of them - which then signal a cutout for Windows cmd processing.

Dane

[mvallevand]

I am quite sure you don't "need" to, you just have to script around you issue.

Martin

[daneo]

Never mind, I can't script around the issue as need expansion in the for loop - I will just whack the DB using PostLoadEPG SQL scripting and remove all ! from the event names.

UPDATE EPG_EVENT
SET
title = replace(title, '!', '')
WHERE
genres like '%Movie%';