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Help with scripts in masstagger

I wish to use FB2K's mass-tagging feature for a lot of Flac files. I tried with mixed results to learn the script's syntax (I'm not too good at this  ), searched on the forum but failed to achieve what I want. My basic filename is :

AlbumArtist [Year] AlbumTitle\TrackNumber [Performer] Title

Nothing fancy, but I add more information when I need it (or simply have it) :

* Edition, when there are several editions for an album
* Track origin, B-side of some single, or from some LP (if the CD is a Greatest Hits or part of a Box set), etc.
* Date, for each track, when different from the album date (especially for albums collecting tracks pre-dating the LP era)
* Original CD, when I replace a CD track by another. Let's say I have a Betty Everett crappy-sounding Best of, and a great-sounding version of "You're no Good" on a Vee-Jay Box set. Then I'll replace the Best of version by the Box set version in the album folder. But I want to remember this is not the original CD version.
* Errors, when I had ripping errors with EAC (I ripped a lot of scratched CD from public libraries)

So a full-blown filename goes like this (gray fields may be present or not) :

AlbumArtist [Year] AlbumTitle {Edition}\TrackNumber [Performer] Title [TrackOrigin] #Date @OriginalCD {Errrors} , e.g. :
Jean Knight [1971] Mr. Big Stuff {24bits Ed.}\12 [Jean Knight] Helping Man [A-Side] #1972 @Complete Stax-Volt Singles Vol.1 {Errors}.flac

Here's what I scripted for the directory part :

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//Artist
$substr(%_directoryname%,1,$sub($strchr(%_directoryname%,'['),2))

//Year
$substr(%_directoryname%,$add($strchr(%_directoryname%,'['),1),$sub($strchr(%_directoryname%,']'),1))

//Album Title :
$ifgreater($strchr(%_directoryname%,'{'),0,$substr(%_directoryname%,$add($strchr(%_directoryname%,']'),2),$sub($strchr(%_directoryname%,'{'),2)),$substr(%_directoryname%,$add($strchr(%_directoryname%,']'),2),$len(%_directoryname%)))

//Edition :
$ifgreater($strchr(%_directoryname%,'{'),0,$substr(%_directoryname%,$add($strchr(%_directoryname%,{),1),$sub($len(%_directoryname%),1)),)


I'm pretty sure there is a smarter way to go, but like I said, I'm no good at this, and it seems to do the job. The first two fields of the filename goes like this :
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//Tracknumber
$substr(%_filename%,1,2)

//Performer
$substr(%_filename%,$add($strchr(%_filename%,'['),1),$sub($strchr(%_filename%,']'),1))
And then... I'm stuck with the title track and the four optional fields, which may or may not be in the filename. I can handle one optional field, but four are way too much for my very limited skills.  Could some kind script guru help me finish these scripts ?