Request: new renaming function: ignore character

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Request: new renaming function: ignore character

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Hello,

It would be very great, if XNView would get a new function for renaming files: Let me explain it with an example. I have files "DSCN12000 picture.jpg" - "DSCN12001 Foto.jpg". And now iI want to rename them to "1 picture.jpg" - "2 Foto.jpg". I think this is impossible with the functions implemented, yet. The second part of the filename should be untouched, only the first part should be converted. A problem is, that the second part is of variable length, because I use it for tagging the pictures with what is shown on them.

Thanks for that great software!

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Re: Request: new renaming function: ignore character

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surfacecleanerz wrote: It would be very great, if XNView would get a new function for renaming files: Let me explain it with an example. I have files "DSCN12000 picture.jpg" - "DSCN12001 Foto.jpg". And now iI want to rename them to "1 picture.jpg" - "2 Foto.jpg". I think this is impossible with the functions implemented, yet. The second part of the filename should be untouched, only the first part should be converted. A problem is, that the second part is of variable length, because I use it for tagging the pictures with what is shown on them.
Ok, not so easy :-)
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Post by surfacecleanerz »

Hello,

You're right not so easy, but possible I think.

The first part has always the same length. So it should be possible to exchange it.

No i have to drive to CeBit...

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Post by Enmoku »

RegExp (PCRE) would work here, but it's not exactly the easy to use for the end user :)
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A nightmare---

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:arrow: Enmoku

:) Hello !
RegExp (PCRE) would work here, but it's not exactly the easy to use for the end user :)
• OMG ! Right ! Paul “Ouistiti”-friend and I have translated the PCRE doc into French for a help folder in a soft we deal with,
it was a fortnight-job and a real nightmare.
- Moreover, that library is very powerful, but not gratis… :(

:mrgreen: KR
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Can you describe what you mean?

Sounds interesting (ok not the french version ;-)

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Mirror site

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:arrow: surfacecleanerz

:) Hello !

• We found out a mirror site which has the whole original PCRE docs HERE in English.
- Some original pages @ Cambrige University have been moved¦renamed¦deleted,
hence it was impossible to follow the original links…
…ok not the french version ;)
- It's a pity, because the French version for that soft is BEAUTIFUL :D See :  “Expressions régulières”…

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Post by surfacecleanerz »

Hello,

Thank you!

I don't speak french, that's the problem and I forgot much of my latin and spanish is often different...

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Stefan
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