Peters Flexible RenAmiNg Kit (PFrank)

tareyton · Joined: 01 Feb 2009 Posts: 3

OK I am sorry but I can't figure out what according to the Help file should be the most basic of tasks.

I have the following file

-AC-DC- songname.mp3

I want to rename it to

songname.mp3

I tried the following

Search: '-'
Replace:

the result is a blank file name.

What am i doing wrong?

James

admin · Site Admin Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 448 Location: Canada

The 'dash' character is a special character in regular expressions.

You have to prevent the dash from being interpreted as a special character either by enclosing it in square brackets
e.g. [-]

or preceeding it with a backslash character

e.g. \-

Peter.

tareyton · Joined: 01 Feb 2009 Posts: 3

thanks. So I have to insert brackets before each '-' then remove everything between the brackets?

Even in files without '-" I still can't get the replace function to work. Anytime I place Replace: in the Replace pattern column it gives me a blank file name.

For example I tried to duplicate the example from the help file

soccer1.avi

Search: 'soccer'
Replace: 'football'

result is a blank file name.

I am putting the search command in the Search Pattern column and the replace command in the replace pattern columns.

James

tareyton · Joined: 01 Feb 2009 Posts: 3

Man I am dumb I just figured it out you don't actually have to type the words search and replace