Re: flip lastname firstname - title .....

[lorenzo]

The answers provided in the topic mentioned in the title almost satisfy this problem, but isn't as general as it could be (I think).

I have authors names (firstname(s) middle(s) lastname) appearing before titles with one hyphen as a separator. The lastname is always the last word before the first hyphen.

A. Bertram Chandler - Big Black Mark.pdf
Alan Dean Foster - Cyber way.pdf
Alastair Reynolds - Diamond Dogs.pdf
Alan F. Troop - Dragon DelaSangre.pdf
J. R. R. Tolkien - THe Fellowship of the Ring
Barb & J. C. Hendee - Noble Dead 01 - Dhampir.pdf

I'd like to be able to reorder the names and place them at the back of the line with a '$' separating the title from the author. Like this....

Big Black Mark.pdf $ Chandler, A. Bertram
Cyber way.pdf $ Foster, Alan Dean
Diamond Dogs.pdf $ Reynolds, Alastair
Dragon DelaSangre.pdf $ Troop, Alan F.
THe Fellowship of the Ring $ Tolkien, J. R. R.
Noble Dead 01 - Dhampir.pdf $ Hendee, Barb & J. C.

I've played around with identifying the name parts as \1, \2 etc. but I haven't found out how to allow for the variability in the number of name parts.

Thanks in advance.

[nevernat]

hi, lorenzo!

WOW!!! SOLVED!!!

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Match=^([\w.& ]*) ([\w. ]*)( - )(.*)
Replace=\4 $ \2, \1

remember that you have to toggle the 'Include Extension' option and set on 'remove' the "Extension" box (down to right in the main window)

IT WORKS VERY WELL!!

[lorenzo]

I've been away this weekend for a family celebration and didn't access my computer until just now. I also never expected a reply so quickly.

Yes, this worked as I had hoped. Now I have to study what it is you did !
Thank you very much

[Admin]

Most regexp stuff is beyond me...this definitely is

Thanks nevernat !!


Jim

[bobkoure]

Or even

^([\w.& ]+?)[ ]*(\w+)[ ]*-[ ]*(.+)
to
\3 $ \2, \1

... which deals with some possible additional spaces...

Note that
* is zero or more matches
+ is one or more matches
If you're going to use a backreference for renaming (something in parentheses that gets used as \1, \2, etc in the "to" line) I'd suggest using the '+' as then, if there are zero matches, BRU won't try to rename that file.
Did that make sense?