converting vpath into filename

Hi,

Does anyone have a favourite way of taking a vpath and converting it to a filename format?

I'd like to take the branch information available to a workflow , strip out some useful info and convert it into a part of a filename so I can pick up a branch based configuration file.

I'm hoping that there's a neat Perl module (hopefully from IWOV) that I can tap into. If not then I'll do some Perl'ing of my own.

Cheers
Stuart Rosewall

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Adam Stoller

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to accomplish here - can you provide an example?

A vpath is generally a filesystem path without the mount point (Y:, /iwmnt, /.iwmnt) preceding it.

An area-relative vpath is the filesystem path from the current directory (.) but without the dot (e.g. [/default/main/www/WORKAREA/waname]/htdocs/something/foo.html)

The branch name can be retrieved from a full vpath using fairly simple regular expressions:

$fullvpath = "/default/main/www/WORKAREA/waname/htdocs/something/foo.html";
if ($fullvpath =~ m%^/default/.*/([^/]+)/(STAGING|EDITION|WORKAREA)/.*%){
$branch = $1;
}

I'm not sure if this answers your question - so as I said, if you provide an example of what you're starting with and what you want to end with - it will be easy for someone to assist you.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

srosewall

Here's the plan:

I get /default/main/bla/bla/bla from iw_branch in a wft.

I'd like to use the branch path I get to pick up a branch specific cfg file (different branches will have different cfg files for the same wft).

So I intend to strip the branch path string down and insert some "_"'s here and there.

I've whacked some Perl code together to do this, but just before I move on to my next bit of development work I was just wanting to know if there are any IWOV PM's available to do the job for me...

Hopefully someone will go - "ah, you want to be using TeamSite::widget - that'll do the job for you". Then again perhaps not.

If there's nothing I can call upon then I'll go with my own bit of code.

Cheers
Stuart

Migrateduser

I'm pretty sure one simple regex would do what you want - but it's still not clear what you want as output. Can you provide a real example of a string you would pass this function and what string you'd want returned to you?

Dave Smith
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srosewall

No you're probably right - regex it... I've got something in place now that pretty much does what I want.

Thanks for the responses.

Cheers
Stuart