Remove - Crop Special not working as expected.

[alterista]

I'm trying to use "Crop - Special" to remove the characters I input and all the characters that come after it. I copied the "Donna Summer- Mac Arthur Park Suite (original extended version).mp3" example from the operations manual. When I enter "Mac*" I get "Donn":


https://imgur.com/a/sG6mgA8

What it seems to be doing is looking for the first instance of any character in the input field and disregards all other characters. So when I enter "Summer*" in the example, it works as I would expect because "Summer" doesn't share any characters with "Donna". But when I enter "Mac*", it crops starting with the "a" in "Donna" and ignores the "M" and "c" that should have been before and after it.

This issue only happens when I'm trying to crop ending with a wildcard. If I'm trying to crop beginning with the wildcard, it works as expected and looks for the entire string before cropping.

I'm using BRU version 4.1.0.0 on Windows 10 and reset the program to default before testing.

[Admin]

Hi, I was able to recreate this issue and it does look like it is a bug... for now you could use instead Replace (3) with Mac* in Replace and leave the Width field empty: that will remove Mac* from name.

[alterista]

Thanks for looking into it. I usually use it to remove between text (not just the word and what follows it), but I didn't want to obfuscate the root of the issue with my specific use case. I never noticed the bug before because the parts I need to replace usually start with a symbol instead of a word. My workaround for this project was to replace the starting word with a unique symbol then run Crop - Special.