Any text you add to the Filename Prefix or Suffix will be stripped from the beginning or end of the filename for matching.
You can also check for certain patterns in the suffix. For example, you may have named your images after the system id, with an added alphabetic suffix to distinguish multiple images of the same object e.g. "_a", _b" etc. If your added suffix follows a predictable pattern you can use certain wildcard characters, rather than having to go through specifying each literal value in the sequence.
To indicate the use of a wildcard, put an asterisk ('*') at the beginning of your suffix value.
The wildcard patterns are as follows:
Pattern |
Meaning |
nA |
Use n to specify a number of Alpha characters as the match pattern. Alpha characters include a to z in both capital and lower case. |
nN |
Use n to specify a number of Numeric characters as the match pattern. Numeric characters include 0 to 9. |
nX |
Use n to specify a number of characters of any type as the match pattern. |
'text' |
Use single quotes around a piece of text to specify that this exact literal value should be matched. |
In all cases zero ('0') may be used as the n value to indicate any number of characters.
Some examples of appropriate Filename Suffix patterns to use follow:
Suffix Examples |
Filename Suffix |
"-a", "-b" ... "-z" |
*'-'1A |
"-a", "-b" ... "-aa", "-ab" |
*'-'0A |
"-front" or "-back" |
*'-'0A |
"-front_cover" or "-back_cover" |
*'-'0A'_cover' |
"_a_1", "_a_2", "_b_1", "_b_2" etc. |
*'_'0X |
