RegEx behaviour

[CuiZinieR]

Hello everybody !

It's my first message here. I would like to congratulate the creator of Bulk Rename Utility because it's a very useful software.

I post here because I don't understand the behaviour of the RegEX function in the software.

For example, I want to modify a filename like this: The Twilight Zone - S1E01 Une vie tranquille.
In the RegEx field of the software, I type The in Match TextBox.
Then, I type aaa in Replace TextBox.

And the result for the filename is: aaa.
I don't understand this because I think the result must be aaa Twilight Zone - S1E01 Une vie tranquille.

Can you help me please ?

[Admin]

Hi,

For the problem you have you would be better to use a straightforward search and replace, rather than regexp. With regexp you'd haveto use semething like

(the)(.*)
aaa\2


Jim

[Karapaz]

Hello everybody,

Id like to know how is it I should write a regex in unix to match a string not followed by another string anywhere in the line.

To be more specific, I want to find lines where drop table is found, but not followed anywhere in the line by the character &.

For example,

I want to grep the line drop table dbo.TAB_PUV_CR_0000692 in a file but not the line drop table dbo.&1

Thks a lot

[shhac]

Hello everybody,
Id like to know how is it I should write a regex in unix to match a string not followed by another string anywhere in the line.
To be more specific, I want to find lines where drop table is found, but not followed anywhere in the line by the character &.
For example,
I want to grep the line drop table dbo.TAB_PUV_CR_0000692 in a file but not the line drop table dbo.&1
Thks a lot

Code: Select all

dbo\.[^&]+

not sure if you need to slash the & but it should be easy enough to test.