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Terry Pinnell

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Feb 10, 2012, 5:38:09 AM2/10/12
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I'd appreciate others trying to reproduce this please. Not sure if it's my
misunderstanding or a minor bug.

A handy feature is that in a JPG Comment you can enter things like $F to
get the filename and $E306 for the EXIF Date/Time.

But if I try to place both on the same line, e.g.

$F EXIF Date/Time = $E306

then it fails, displaying just the raw codes.

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

me

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Feb 10, 2012, 5:50:50 AM2/10/12
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Sigh, each goes on a separate line.

Terry Pinnell

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Feb 10, 2012, 9:04:45 AM2/10/12
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On an associated point, any of these codes that generate the '\'
character, such as $D for the full file path, result in duplicated
slashes, '\\'. For example, results like
C:\\Docs\\My Pictures\\PHOTOS\\Walks UK\\TP04\\TP04-Day3\\

Bug or by design?

Richard

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Feb 10, 2012, 9:20:50 AM2/10/12
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http://irfanview-forum.de/forum.php


Terry Pinnell

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Feb 10, 2012, 9:27:14 AM2/10/12
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No need for the sigh - especially as you're mistaken. Both codes *can* go
on the same line.

It was my own stupid mistake. I must have forgotten to
perform the Write command before examining the result.

Robert Coe

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Feb 10, 2012, 8:46:31 PM2/10/12
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On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:04:45 +0000, Terry Pinnell <terry...@DELETEgmail.com>
wrote:
A consequence of Irfanview's Unix roots, most likely. Pretty universally in
Unix, the backslash is a quoting character and must be doubled if an actual
backslash is intended. Some Windows programs recognize this and are somewhat
forgiving of inappropriate doubled backslashes. Most aren't.

Bob

David J Taylor

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Feb 11, 2012, 3:47:20 AM2/11/12
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> A consequence of Irfanview's Unix roots, most likely. Pretty universally
> in
> Unix, the backslash is a quoting character and must be doubled if an
> actual
> backslash is intended. Some Windows programs recognize this and are
> somewhat
> forgiving of inappropriate doubled backslashes. Most aren't.
>
> Bob

IrfanView is a pure Windows program:

http://www.irfanview.com/faq.htm#Q57

The double-backslash requirement may be a function of using the C
language.

Cheers,
David

Terry Pinnell

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Feb 11, 2012, 10:45:04 AM2/11/12
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Thanks both.

Terry Pinnell

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Feb 11, 2012, 10:59:54 AM2/11/12
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Thanks, duly joined for future use. (With great difficulty registering!
Gave up on the ambiguous images after 3 failed attempts and tried an MP3.
Eventually succeeded. A few forums go way OTT on this stuff IMO.)
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