Reversing dates and titles

[nothinglivid]

Hello, I basically have files named like this:

23-10-12 [Vacation] Hawaii (Jesse Longing).mp4

I need to rename them to this:

[Vacation] 23-10-12 Hawaii (Jesse Longing).mp3

Any tips? Thanks!

[nothinglivid]

I made a tiny typo on the result.

I want them to turn into

[Vacation] 23-10-12 - Hawaii (Jesse Longing).mp4

Sorry for the confusion!

[Luuk]

For the example, RegEx(1) can use a checkmark for "Simple" with a Match and Replace like...
%1-%2-%3 [%4] %5
[%4] %1-%2-%3 - %5

If needing something more exact, can remove the checkmark and use something like...
^(2\d-\d\d-\d\d )(\[[^]]+\] )(.+)
\2\1- \3

[therube]

If [whateveritmaybe] is always the second "string", you could parse on the spaces.

1:RegEx, enable, Simple

Code: Select all

Match:  %1 %2 %3
Replace:  %2 %1 - %3


[nothinglivid]

Ty to you both, both examples helped me a lot. Now I've got an idea of how to bulk rename the other files too which are in an entirely different naming scheme!