Example Using Split & Auto Range & Modify

For demonstration purposes we will start with a fusker collection of our favorite female action stars. Download it yourself and follow the example - or just sit back and read the example.

At the bottom of the fusker collection is the following file reference:
http://celebritywonder.ugo.com/wp/Jennifer_Garner_in_Elektra_Wallpaper_2_800.jpg



A Reason To Split

Fusker Collection
Fusker fusker collection tree view showing the final image reference expanded 		Properties for Image
Properties dialog opened for initial image 		Looking at the file name we wonder if the 800 at the end is associated with the resolution of the image. By right clicking on the image and choosing Properties ... at the bottom of the menu we see the image size is in fact 800x600 - giving us a good indication the 800 was based on the size of the image.

But what does the "2" mean... could there be more images?

If we were to directly Auto Range this segment the number 800 would become a sequence rather than the 2 simply because the 800 is at the end of the file name... If we want to determine if there are more images in the sequence of 800 pixel images we will have to split the 800 from the 2.


Splitting A File Segment

Looking at the initial segment we see the file name in the Pre-Text field and the file extension in the Post-Text field and no fusk. If we were to directly split this segment the top segment would still contain both numbers while the bottom segment would then contain the file extension (.jpg). The first step is to modify the file segment to move the "_800" from the Pre-Text to the Post-Text. This separates the two numbers within the same segment. This change makes no difference for how the file is referenced and in fact the fusker collection tree looks no different. When we split the file segment now we do see a difference in our fusker collection. We now have a split directory segment and a file segment and each has one of the two numbers.
Initial Fusker Collection
Initial file segment 		After Segment Modified
Fusker fusker collection tree view showing the final image reference expanded 		After Segment Split
Fusker fusker collection tree view showing Split Directory
Fusker fusker collection tree view showing the final image reference expanded Fusker fusker collection tree view showing the final image reference expanded Fusker fusker collection tree view showing Split Directory
By modifying the file segment to separate the two parts of the file name we wished to fusk into the Pre-Text and Post-Text portions of the segment we were able to split the segment to create a split directory segment containing the Pre-Text of the original segment and a new file segment which contained the Post-Text.


Auto Ranging A Split Directory

When we select the split directory segment an choose Auto Range on the fusker collection view menu it will now find the "2" and apply the auto ranging process. In our case we have used the Auto Range Override to set our range size to 5.
Origianl View
Fusker fusker collection tree view showing the final image reference expanded 		Auto Ranged Split Directory
Initial file segment 		Auto Ranged View
Fusker fusker collection tree view showing Split Directory
Clean Split Directory Segment
Auto Ranged Split Directory Segment cleaned 		We see that after fusking the split directory we have three valid image references and two invalid references. A little bit of clean up we find that there really are only three images in the sequence (2, 3, and 4).


A Second Level Fusk

Now we are curious if there are other image sizes for this three images. Auto ranging the new file segment would be of little use since even if there are other image sizes they are not likely to be 801, 802, etc... Instead we will manually modify the segment and guess at another resolution - namely 1024.

We move the "_" to the Pre-Text, leave ".jpg" in the Post-Text, and add a list of strings to the fusk. This is arbitrary as the list could contain both the "_" and the ".jpg" or any combination...
Manually Modified File Segment
Manually modified file segment with list entries 800 and 1024 		View of celebritywonder.ugo.com
View of the images from Celebrity Wonder after segment modification 		Zoomed View
Zoomed view of the images from Celebrity Wonder after segment modification
After manually modifying the file segment we see how splitting a segment allows us to create multiple fusks at the same "level" of an image path. In this case the first part of the file name has become a fusked numeric split directory and the second portion of the file name has become a list fusked file segment. The path now references 6 images rather than 1.