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Changing order of file names

 
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RickPhil



Joined: 23 Apr 2011
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:09 am    Post subject: Changing order of file names Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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RickPhil



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PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2012 11:33 am    Post subject: Worked Perfectly Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 6:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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