Peters Flexible RenAmiNg Kit (PFrank)

RickPhil · Joined: 23 Apr 2011 Posts: 7

I want to reorder the file name from:
YYYY-MM-DD - FirstName Last Name - Title
to:
First Name Last Name - Title - YYY-MM-DD

I can get the names and titles moved correctly but whenever I attempt to get the date moved ends up between the name and title.

Any help is welcome.

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

Try the following in the custom renaming creator (do not include the single quotes):

Row: 1
Search: '(?E)(.*?)\-(.*?)\-(.*?)\-(.*?)\-(.*)'
Replace: '\4 - \5 - \1 - \2 - \3'

Hope that helps,

Peter.

RickPhil · Joined: 23 Apr 2011 Posts: 7

Worked great.

One question, whats the significance of the slashs in the search field. I've seen examples using them in the replace field, but not in the search field.

Thanks.

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

In the search field you won't be able to search for special characters like '[', ']', '(', ')', etc. unless you precede them with a '\'.
This is a property of 'regular expressions' which are used by PFrank for search/replace. This is all explained in the PFrank user manual.

Peter.