[Marcel95]

Good evening,

i export many PNG files during my unsteady simulation and i want to have them sorted by the time, they being created.

The problem is, that the name of the automated exported files consists of a base name (which i can define in StarCCM+, thats good) and a additional number. The Number is automatically generated by StarCCM+ and in my case (automated export is triggered by delta time) the number is the actuall physical time in the simulation during the export. The format of that physical time is the exponential scientific format. This last leads to my problem.

For example a exported png has the name: "Scalar_Scene01_5.4e-2"

When i want to sort those hundreds files by name, the following problem appears.

Windows thinks: Scalar_Scene01_5.4e-2 < Scalar_Scene01_5.5e-3
In words: When i sort by name, i have a problem with the scientific format.

Is there any possibility to change the scientific format in the file names to the regular format? Like 0.0032 instead of 3.2e-3? That would solve my problem.

Just sorting the files by the date of change doesnt work in my case. Because the files have all the same date of change, because i have to download them from the cluster to my pc first. They are not generated directly on my pc.

Sorry for that complicated explanation and thanks for any help!

[shakabrade]

Originally Posted by Marcel95

Good evening,

i export many PNG files during my unsteady simulation and i want to have them sorted by the time, they being created.

The problem is, that the name of the automated exported files consists of a base name (which i can define in StarCCM+, thats good) and a additional number. The Number is automatically generated by StarCCM+ and in my case (automated export is triggered by delta time) the number is the actuall physical time in the simulation during the export. The format of that physical time is the exponential scientific format. This last leads to my problem.

For example a exported png has the name: "Scalar_Scene01_5.4e-2"

When i want to sort those hundreds files by name, the following problem appears.

Windows thinks: Scalar_Scene01_5.4e-2 < Scalar_Scene01_5.5e-3
In words: When i sort by name, i have a problem with the scientific format.

Is there any possibility to change the scientific format in the file names to the regular format? Like 0.0032 instead of 3.2e-3? That would solve my problem.

Just sorting the files by the date of change doesnt work in my case. Because the files have all the same date of change, because i have to download them from the cluster to my pc first. They are not generated directly on my pc.

Sorry for that complicated explanation and thanks for any help!

Hi, I had the same problem and created a python script to rename the contents in the folder. It bulldozes over everything it can so be careful.

The script:

import os


filename = r'PATH_TO_THE_FILE'
i = 0
for filename in os.listdir(filename):

name, ext = filename.rsplit(".",1)
what_i_want, the_rest = name.rsplit("_", 1)
the_rest_float=float(the_rest)
the_rest_int=int(the_rest_float*100000)
name_final=(str(the_rest_int) + '.' +ext)
os.rename(filename,name_final)
i = i +1

[Marcel95]

Originally Posted by shakabrade

Hi, I had the same problem and created a python script to rename the contents in the folder. It bulldozes over everything it can so be careful.

The script:

import os


filename = r'PATH_TO_THE_FILE'
i = 0
for filename in os.listdir(filename):

name, ext = filename.rsplit(".",1)
what_i_want, the_rest = name.rsplit("_", 1)
the_rest_float=float(the_rest)
the_rest_int=int(the_rest_float*100000)
name_final=(str(the_rest_int) + '.' +ext)
os.rename(filename,name_final)
i = i +1

Hey shakabrade,

thank you very much for your Python script. I modified it a little bit and now it works perfectly for me. Thanks a lot.

Marcel