Peters Flexible RenAmiNg Kit (PFrank)

Newton · Joined: 23 Jan 2010 Posts: 2

ok, so my file name looks either like this

- file - name.mp3

or

-file - name.mp3

what i want it to look like is

file - name.mp3

i.e. only remove the first hyphen and/or space.

what i have is \-. but that removes ALL hyphens, which i don't want... any ideas?

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

Hi,

You can use the counter extension I added for regular expressions. P Paste the following into the search column (without the single quotes):

'(?1)\-'

This will replace the first dash character with whatever you put in the replace column.

Peter.

tbabyren · Joined: 18 Aug 2010 Posts: 2

I tried that and it still wants to remove the second instance of the "-". Am I missing something? It shows in the preview that its going to do what I want but when I run it it doesn't. What if I just want to remove the "-". How do I just delete and not replace?

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

Hi,

Using the (?1)\-' expression in the search field should work (without inlcuding the single quotes). If it works for the preview panel it has to work for the preview page.
To delete the '-', just leave the replace field empty.

Would you please send me your 'Config' file so I can have a look at it - the file can be found in the Application Data\PFrank folder

e.g. for XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\peter\Application Data\PFrank\Config

The location is similar for Vista/WIndows7

Peter.

tbabyren · Joined: 18 Aug 2010 Posts: 2

I also don't want instances of only 1 "-" being changed but I got it to work by selecting the files I didn't want changed and removing them from the list but is there a faster way to exclude files with only 1 "-" I still have another 30,000 songs to go through. Much appreciated on response time!!

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

OK - you wouldl also need to use the name filter to pre-filter names to eliminate names that only have 1 dash.

Set the name filter to:

*-*-*

And then scan.

Peter.