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wolfman6



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:07 am    Post subject: How to delete all characters from a bracket on Reply with quote

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

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:50 am    Post subject: How to delete all characters from a bracket on Reply with quote

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!!
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

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

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Works great! Thank you so much for your help!
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