Move part of the name

[jgt]

I'd like to see the function to move some characters from one position to another. Example I have a series of files similar to "01 - Ray Romano - Everything and a Kite (Disc 1)" and I want to move the string "(Disk 1)" from its current position to the start (position 1) of the file name.

[Admin]

Something like this very messy to code, and will take up a lot of screen space. But you can already achieve this functionality very easily using Regular Expressions. See the helpfile for the "Program Files" example. There's also an excellent posting here which discusses regular expressions.

[Stefan]

An try on the fly, since i just have a break ;-)



You have:
01 - Ray Romano - Everything and a Kite (Disc 1).txt


You search for:
(\d\d) - ([A-Za-z ]*) - ([A-Za-z ]*)\s(\(([A-Za-z0-9 ]*)\))

Don't need to search/replace the extension in BRU.


Explanation:
(\d\d) = 2 digits > group 1
- = space and -char and space
([A-Za-z ]+) = one or more upper or lower of any char or spaces >group 2
- = space and -char and space
([A-Za-z ]+) = one or more of any char or spaces > group 3
\s = one space
( = beginn of group 4
\( = the char ( himself
([A-Za-z ]+) = one or more of any char or spaces
\) = the char )
) = end of the 4 group



You replace with:
\4 - \1 - \2 - \3


----
Or shorter:
S: (\d\d) - (.+) - (.+)\s(\((.+)\))
R: \4 - \1 - \2 - \3

Or:
S: (.+) - (.+) - (.+)\s(\((.+)\))
R: \4 - \1 - \2 - \3




HTH

[Admin]

Thank you Stefan :-)

[Myrkur]

Hi guys,
That's a very old topic but I thought not to open a very similar one... I just discovered this great utility and if only I could figure the regexes out, it would help me a lot...! I tried to put together advices from the support but all my attempts failed...
I scanned some class notes and named them e.g. "Scan Pag. 1 - 8 (05.2013)". Unlucky choice, (they're not correctly ordered when in a folder) I would love to move the date in first position.

This came to my mind, but I think the problem is that symbols "." and "-" are not included in "[A-Za-z]". Is that the point? Could you help me, please?

Match: ([A-Za-z ]*)\s(\(\d\d.\d\d\d\d\))
Replace: \2 \1

Thanks a lot to all

[Stefan]

Hi guys,
That's a very old topic but I thought not to open a very similar one... I just discovered this great utility and if only I could figure the regexes out, it would help me a lot...! I tried to put together advices from the support but all my attempts failed...
I scanned some class notes and named them e.g. "Scan Pag. 1 - 8 (05.2013)". Unlucky choice, (they're not correctly ordered when in a folder) I would love to move the date in first position.

This came to my mind, but I think the problem is that symbols "." and "-" are not included in "[A-Za-z]". Is that the point? Could you help me, please?

Match: ([A-Za-z ]*)\s(\(\d\d.\d\d\d\d\))
Replace: \2 \1

Thanks a lot to all

FROM:
Scan Pag. 1 - 8 (05.2013)
TO:
2013-05 Scan Pag. 1 - 8

USE:
RegEx(1)
Match: "(.+)\s\((\d\d)\.(\d\d\d\d)\)"
Replace: "\3-\2 \1"


Note:
Don't use the double quotes in real.
Because of the dot in base name, select "Options > Ignore... > File Extensions".
Test always with copies of your real files and be sure to have a backup.

[Myrkur]

FROM:
Scan Pag. 1 - 8 (05.2013)
TO:
2013-05 Scan Pag. 1 - 8

USE:
RegEx(1)
Match: "(.+)\s\((\d\d)\.(\d\d\d\d)\)"
Replace: "\3-\2 \1"


Note:
Don't use the double quotes in real.
Because of the dot in base name, select "Options > Ignore... > File Extensions".
Test always with copies of your real files and be sure to have a backup.

Thanks, thanks, thanks! Worked great!