Remove everything after and including certain word

[MisterM23]

Hi

I have many files with the same naming format as: BananaTheBigBananaHat.pdf

I want to remove the word "The" and everything after it from the filenames.

I found this post which is meant to do exactly that: viewtopic.php?p=14676

But for whatever reason, I can't get it to work using:

Match: (.+)\bThe
Replace: \1

Am I right in just putting "(.+)\bThe" in the Match box and "\1" in the Replace box? When I preview, I am told "There are no selected items that need renaming".

Probably missing somethign obviously daft?

Many thnaks

Mr M

[MisterM23]

Figured it out...

Match: (.*?)The.*
Replace: \1