How can I give a dash - line to my image file name

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How can I give a dash - line to my image file name

Postby nylsan » Wed May 13, 2020 11:48 am

How can I give a dash - line to my image file name just like the last item in the image below. Please check the image linkhttps://postimg.cc/phMkr3sr

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Re: How can I give a dash - line to my image file name

Postby trm2 » Wed May 13, 2020 6:03 pm

The dash line I believe that you are referring to is called the 'Pipe' character, from what I can see in your photo.
The pipe character is a windows system reserved character and cannot be used in a filename. Therefore
the answer is no. Even if you were to succeed in entering it (and there are ways), you would more than likely
mess up your system at worse and at best, Windows would not recognize the file and possibly the directory it resides in.
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Re: How can I give a dash - line to my image file name

Postby therube » Wed May 13, 2020 8:47 pm

I'm thinking that he actually want - (dashes).

In which case:

3:Replace
Code: Select all
Replace:  <space> (physical, not the word)
With:  -


Now that also messes up with the existing <sp>dash<sp>, causing additional dashes.
Code: Select all
Copy of 1-1-4501 aka the NON date -  - BLOWS UP xxx   
Copy-of-1-1-4501-aka-the-NON-date------BLOWS-UP-xxx


Though if there is only 1 such instance in his words, he can come right back with:
Code: Select all
Replace:  ---
With: <space>-<space>
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Re: How can I give a dash - line to my image file name

Postby trm2 » Wed May 13, 2020 8:53 pm

You are probably right - from the photo it looked like a pipe character right next to the extension at the
bottom but I couldn't be sure. It wasn't clear enough where he just circled the bottom entry.
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