Peters Flexible RenAmiNg Kit (PFrank)

wolfman6 · Joined: 07 Jul 2009 Posts: 3

I have some files I copied from my web browser that are named 'filename[1]200905090513145.jpg' etc. Also have some that just have 'filename[1].*'. I would like to delete everything from the first bracket on. I found a similar post from someone to delete everything after a '-' and tried to modify it with a [, but I get an error saying that it's an unexpected end of syntax or something like that.

Please help!

Thanks

wolfman6

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

Hi,

Just put '\[.*' in the search column of the first row (don't inlcude the single quotes). leave the replace column of that row empty.
That will delete everything from the first bracket onwards.
Note that since brackets are special characters in regualr expressions you needed to escape them by preceeding them with a backslash.

Hope that helps.

Peter.

wolfman6 · Joined: 07 Jul 2009 Posts: 3

Hi,

Thanks for replying. It looks like it will work, but it will delete the file extension, too and I don't want to do that - only the prefix.

How do I modify to leave the extension alone?

Thank you!!

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

Try '(?E)\[.*'
- again don't include the single quotes.

The preceeding '(?E)' will make the regex engine skip the extension.

Peter.

wolfman6 · Joined: 07 Jul 2009 Posts: 3

Works great! Thank you so much for your help!