Wild card usage

[RobertArens37]

I have 1000s of .jpg files names like this that I need to change. I need to change the date format from, for example, "1725sep9JohnEvans.........." to, for example, "17250909JohnEvans......." without the quotes.

[Luuk]

Greetings Robert. Im thinking the javascript conducts like your explanation much easier, but not expert knowing it. The RegEx(1) also can do this, but its much longer commands, so please to save it somewhere after the editing. The settings is all inside of RegEx(1) with a checkmark in "v2", then all of this!

Match...

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(\d)(jan|feb|mar|apr|mai|jun|jul|aug|sep|okt|nov|dec)([1-9][^\d])(?X)(\d)jan(\d)(?X)(\d)feb(\d)(?X)(\d)mar(\d)(?X)(\d)apr(\d)(?X)(\d)mai(\d)(?X)(\d)jun(\d)(?X)(\d)jul(\d)(?X)(\d)aug(\d)(?X)(\d)sep(\d)(?X)(\d)okt(\d)(?X)(\d)nov(\d)(?X)(\d)dec(\d)

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$1${2}0$3(?X)${1}01$2(?X)${1}02$2(?X)${1}03$2(?X)${1}04$2(?X)${1}05$2(?X)${1}06$2(?X)${1}07$2(?X)${1}08$2(?X)${1}09$2(?X)${1}10$2(?X)${1}11$2(?X)${1}12$2

First, to edit the month names in "Match" if your spelling can be different, then Im thinking it conducts very well. Im glad you ask this question, because it teaches me about ${#} to separate "too may numbers" after "$" in the replace. This was difficult to understand, lucky Im also using the exiftool and its the similiar methods.