Function to increment filename - delphi

Question

I'm trying to make a function that can increment a filename.
If last char of the string is a number then increment it.
If last char is a letter then add _1 or _2 or _3(increment this also).
I have to be sure the filename is unique but i cannot use datetime inside filename because all the filenames must be <32 chars without extension.
EX: Apple_99.txt =>Apple_100
Ex: Apple_173 => Apple_174
EX: This_is_my_first_text.txt => This_is_my_first_text_1.txt
Ex: This_is_my_first_text_9.txt => This_is_my_first_text_10.txt
I need to use this in order to rename a file an then upload it to a ftp server.
I've found a function that can do something like this but it only works if the filename contains only uppercase.How can I modify this function in order to access lowercase an uppercase string?
Here is the function:
function IncStr(Str: String; Amount: Integer; Index: Integer = -1): String;
const
MIN_VAL = 65; // 'A'
MAX_VAL = 90; // 'Z'
var
Digit, ToAdd, ToCarry: Integer;
begin
if (Index = 0) and (Amount > 0) then
begin
Result := Char(MIN_VAL + Amount - 1) + Str;
Exit;
end;
if Index = -1 then Index := Length(Str);
ToCarry := 0;
Digit := Ord(Str[Index]);
while not (Digit in [MIN_VAL..MAX_VAL]) do
begin
Dec(Index);
Digit := Ord(Str[Index]);
end;
ToAdd := Digit + Amount;
while (ToAdd > MAX_VAL) do
begin
Dec(ToAdd, 26);
Inc(ToCarry);
end;
Result := Str;
Result[Index] := Char(ToAdd);
if (ToCarry > 0) then
Result := IncStr(Result, ToCarry, Index - 1);
end;
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
S: String; // holds string to increment
C: Integer; // amount to increment by
begin
// make sure that Edit1 starts with a valid character
// i.e. 'A' to 'Z'
S := Edit1.Text;
C := StrtoIntDef(Edit2.Text, 0);
// test it, place result in Edit3
Edit3.Text := IncStr(S, C);
{
Example data:
Edit1 := AAZ
Edit2 := 2
= Edit3 := ABB
Edit1 := BZY
Edit2 := 3
= Edit3 := CAB
Edit1 := ZZZ
Edit2 := 1
= Edit3 := AAAA
Edit1 := AA-AC
Edit2 := 3
= Edit3 := AA-AF
Edit1 := AA/Z
Edit2 := 5
= Edit3 := AB/E
... etc
Here's one to try too :-)
Edit1 := ZZZ
Edit2 := 264172
}
end;
Thank you!

Answer 1

Like so many programming problems, the key is to break the problem down into small pieces. First of all, let's write a function to decode the original file name into its constituent parts:
procedure DecodeFileName(const Input: string; out Stem, Ext: string; out Number: Integer);
var
P: Integer;
begin
Ext := TPath.GetExtension(Input);
Stem := TPath.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(Input);
Number := 0;
P := Stem.LastIndexOf('_');
if P = -1 then begin
exit;
end;
if TryStrToInt(Stem.Substring(P+1), Number) then begin
Stem := Stem.Substring(0, P);
end;
end;
The following demonstrates how this works:
DecodeFileName('test.txt', Stem, Ext, Number);
Writeln(Stem, ', ', Number, ', ', Ext);
DecodeFileName('test_dd.txt', Stem, Ext, Number);
Writeln(Stem, ', ', Number, ', ', Ext);
DecodeFileName('test_23.txt', Stem, Ext, Number);
Writeln(Stem, ', ', Number, ', ', Ext);
The output is:
test, 0, .txt
test_dd, 0, .txt
test, 23, .txt
So now you can make a new filename like this:
function IncrementedFileName(const FileName: string): string;
var
Stem, Ext: string;
Number: Integer;
begin
DecodeFileName(FileName, Stem, Ext, Number);
Result := Format('%s_%d%s', [Stem, Number+1, Ext]);
end;
And then we can see how that performs:
Writeln(IncrementedFileName('test.txt'));
Writeln(IncrementedFileName('test_dd.txt'));
Writeln(IncrementedFileName('test_23.txt'));
Writeln(IncrementedFileName('test_28'));
The output is:
test_1.txt
test_dd_1.txt
test_24.txt
test_29
If you don't have access to the string helper methods then you can code it like this:
procedure DecodeFileName(const Input: string; out Stem, Ext: string; out Number: Integer);
var
P: Integer;
begin
Ext := TPath.GetExtension(Input);
Stem := TPath.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(Input);
Number := 0;
P := LastDelimiter('_', Stem);
if P = 0 then begin
exit;
end;
if TryStrToInt(Copy(Stem, P+1, MaxInt), Number) then begin
Stem := Copy(Stem, 1, P-1);
end;
end;
I have not executed this final function, so do not be surprised if it has errors.