Remove extra charter before extension

[scalibound]

Hi,
I figured out how to do most of what I needed to do with files. But this last part is eluding me.

I need to be able to remove the extra (.) that was added before the extension in files. In some cases it's before the extension in others it's in the middle of a file.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Current:
Braveheart 1995.720p.BrRip.x264..srt
Braveheart 1995.720p.BrRip.x264..mp4
Braveheart 1995.720p.BrRip.x264..dvdid.xml

New:
Braveheart 1995.720p.BrRip.x264.srt
Braveheart 1995.720p.BrRip.x264.mp4
Braveheart 1995.720p.BrRip.x264.dvdid.xml

[Stefan]

Welcome!

Well done asked with good examples.

Hi,
I figured out how to do most of what I needed to do with files. But this last part is eluding me.

I need to be able to remove the extra (.) that was added before the extension in files.
In some cases it's before the extension in others it's in the middle of a file.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Current:
Braveheart 1995.720p.BrRip.x264..srt
Braveheart 1995.720p.BrRip.x264..mp4
Braveheart 1995.720p.BrRip.x264..dvdid.xml

New:
Braveheart 1995.720p.BrRip.x264.srt
Braveheart 1995.720p.BrRip.x264.mp4
Braveheart 1995.720p.BrRip.x264.dvdid.xml

Simply FIND two dots and REPLACE with an single dot?

For that use

Repl.(3)
Replace: ..
With: .







OK, on default this does not work for the dot before the extension,
because on default BRU does not take the ext into account.... and so BRU see only one dot there at that place.
(Because the dot used as base name/Extension delimiter is excluded with the ext itself too)

So BRU will only work on this strings:
Braveheart 1995.720p.BrRip.x264.
Braveheart 1995.720p.BrRip.x264.
Braveheart 1995.720p.BrRip.x264..dvdid




But you can always take an closer look at the help or the options
and find you can disable this default behavior via menu "Options > Ignore... > File Extensions"



Issue solved?

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[scalibound]

Thank you for the lighting fast reply. I'll try it out tonight when I get home. (Can't wait until quiting time- I've been trying to figure this particular issue out on my own for over a week now.)

[scalibound]

Thank you... Setting the options to ignore the extensions did the trick.

[Stefan]

You are welcome. Thanks for the feedback.

[quattro]

That worked for me, too. I'd been puzzling how to ignore a spurious dot within a filename and make an alteration:

p12345678.tonto,c85
p12345678.tonto.jpg

Thanks
Brian (new member)