Peters Flexible RenAmiNg Kit (PFrank)

ExNavy91 · Joined: 12 Oct 2008 Posts: 3

I have looked through the forums, but I obviously can't phrase my search well enough to find what I'm looking for. I can't be the only person that needs to do something like this.

How can I perform an action only on certain items in a folder? For example, in a folder I have files that are titled as follows:

The Righteous Brothers - Little Latin Lupe Lu.mp3
Roy Orbison - The Crowd.mp3
The Chordettes - Lollipop.mp3

I want to change only filenames that start with 'The' so after running PFrank, the list would look as follows:

Righteous Brothers, [The] - Little Latin Lupe Lu.mp3
Roy Orbison - The Crowd.mp3
Chordettes, [The] - Lollipop.mp3

I have used this sequence of commands to change the files:

Search ^The Replace , [The] -
Search (?x)(.*?)[ ]*?[-]+(?x)(.*?)[ ]*?[-]+[ ]*?(.*)$ Replace \2 \1 -\3
Search (?x)[ ]*[-][ ]* Replace -

Which does the job nicely as long as ALL the filenames start with 'The'

So what I'm asking , I guess, is how to do something like:

:TOP
Get Filename
IF the file name begins with 'The' (^The) THEN
Replace it with ,[The] -
Execute Swap commands
END IF
IF (there are more files) THEN GOTO TOP

Thanks for your help!

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

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

Row: 1
Search: '^The(.*) -'
Replace: '\1, [The] -'

Hope that helps.

Peter.