swaping names around with two artists

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swaping names around with two artists

Postby oilburner » Sat May 05, 2012 12:37 pm

hi everyone
ive tried to do this but having no luck can any one help me eg:i have files labled

SC3095-07 - Williams, Vanessa & Chayanne - You Are My Home,
and i would like it
SC3095-07 - Vanessa Williams & Chayanne - You Are My Home
:(
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Re: swaping names around with two artists

Postby Stefan » Sat May 05, 2012 4:07 pm

You can do that with an regular expression.
There are several "swap name" examples in the forum.

For your issue try to find an pattern to split your file name which is common for all files,
e.g. get the block After " - " and Before " - "
and swap the parts from that block at the "&"


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