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Moving file extension to the end of file name.

 
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harterlynn



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 3:33 pm    Post subject: Moving file extension to the end of file name. Reply with quote

I am new to regular expressions and I am using PKFRANK to rename a long list of files. Could anyone help me out with the syntex for the regular expression to do the following.

How to move file extension to the end of file name using a regular expression.

Using Search Pattern: REGEX.

This is an example of a file name I want to rename:

AP JOURNAL.RTF - APRIL 07
TO
AP JOURNAL - APRIL 07.RTF

Also, how to define an "OR" statement in a search pattern?

APRIL OR APR
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try the following (when pasting to the search/replace column, do not paste the single quotes as they are for highlighting only):

Row: 1
Search: '(.*?)([.].*?)([ ].*)'
Replace: '\1\3\2'

This will isolate the extension in the second group and move it to the end.

After using the above do you still need to use the OR pattern? If you do then let me know with some example before/after names.

Peter.
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harterlynn



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:43 pm    Post subject: REPLY Reply with quote

Thank you Peter for the reply.

I will try this solution when I get home tonight.

Conserning the OR statement.


Search for this: (This is where I need the OR Statement.)
APRIL, April, APR, Apr

Replace with:
04-08

Thank you for all the help.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The '|' character is used to set up an OR expression.
To change variations of 'April' to '04-08' add the following to the second row (again don't include the single quotes):

Row: 2
Search: 'APRIL|April|APR|Apr'
Replace: '04-08'

Hope this helps!

Peter.
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harterlynn



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you for the help.

Your answers where great.

I hope to learn a great deal more about Regular Expressions in the near future.

Thanx's again.
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