Save filenames as csv file

[shb]

Let me first say- what a great little program. Thanks for all the effort you have put in. BRU has saved me lots of time!

What I would love to see however, is the option to save the old name / new name pairs as a CSV or tab delimited file. I have been using the new copy to clipboard functionality and that's great, but I still need to open a text editor, paste the text and save the file as a .tab to allow me to import the name pairs into a database which is essential for our work-flow.

Is there any hope of adding "save names as .csv" functionality?

Thanks,

Scott

Also, I'm sure you've thought of this, but it would be wonderful to be able to do multiple find and replaces. As in swapping periods and dashes AND spaces and underscores.

[Admin]

What I would love to see however, is the option to save the old name / new name pairs as a CSV or tab delimited file. I have been using the new copy to clipboard functionality and that's great, but I still need to open a text editor, paste the text and save the file as a .tab to allow me to import the name pairs into a database which is essential for our work-flow.

Is there any hope of adding "save names as .csv" functionality?

Absolutely! Tell me (or show me) exactly what format you are looking for and I'll implement it.

Also, I'm sure you've thought of this, but it would be wonderful to be able to do multiple find and replaces. As in swapping periods and dashes AND spaces and underscores.

This is a bit tricky with the current layout, as I'm struggling for space. However if you take a look at my latest dabbling you'll see that Bulk Rename Command has this option, as you can specify most of the parameters as many times as you like. You could easily set up a script to do the multiple find-replace commands that you require.


Jim

[Admin]

An addendum to my previous post.

Could you cope with it being a pipe-delimited file instead? The reaon I ask is that I already have a facility for importing pipe-delimited files, and the pipe symbol is not valid within filenames, so this would tie things together nicely.


Jim

[shb]

Thanks for the quick reply!

Unfortunately, no, my DB program can't import pipe delimited files. It's either tab delimited or comma delimited. What I am looking for is the ability to choose some files to rename, set my parameters, and then just before actually running the rename, having the capacity to save the old-name/new-name pairs in a text file with a ".csv" extension. The body of that file would look like this:

kasdor_123456_1-1_0001,kasdorf_812498001
kasdor_123456_1-2_0002,kasdorf_812498003
kasdor_123456_1-3a_0003,kasdorf_812498005
kasdor_123456_1-3b_0004,kasdorf_812498007
kasdor_123456_1-4a_0005,kasdorf_812498009
kasdor_123456_1-4b_0006,kasdorf_812498011
kasdor_123456_1-5_0007,kasdorf_812498013
kasdor_123456_2-1_0008,kasdorf_812498015
kasdor_123456_2-2_0009,kasdorf_812498017
kasdor_123456_2-3_0010,kasdorf_812498019
kasdor_123456_2-4_0011,kasdorf_812498021

Does that make sense?

Thanks in advance!

-Scott

PS- What would be even better would be a check box "create .csv log" that, if checked would automatically generate the .csv file once the "rename" button was hit.