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Request: new renaming function: ignore character
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:16 pm
by surfacecleanerz
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!
regards,
Stefan
Re: Request: new renaming function: ignore character
Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:48 am
by xnview
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
Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:23 am
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...
regards,
Stefan
Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 2:28 pm
by Enmoku
RegExp (PCRE) would work here, but it's not exactly the easy to use for the end user :)
A nightmare---
Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:46 pm
by Clo
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…
KR
Claude
Clo
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:06 pm
by surfacecleanerz
Can you describe what you mean?
Sounds interesting (ok not the french version
regards,
Stefan
Mirror site
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:35 pm
by Clo
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 
See : “Expressions régulières”…
VG
Claude
Clo
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:46 am
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...
regards,
Stefan