Request: Advanced Copy/Move/Rename regex stacking

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raccoon
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Request: Advanced Copy/Move/Rename regex stacking

Post by raccoon »

@void, Would you entertain the idea of stacking multiple rename operations into a single batch process? I understand the current interface doesn't really make this practical, but experimentally, should it be very complicated (GUI aside)?

Experimentally, I'd propose the single syntax string: s/<from-pattern>/<to-pattern>/;s/<from-pattern>/<to-pattern>/;... as in:

s/\.+/\s/;s/(.*)\s((?:19|20)\d\d)/\1\s\(\2\)/;s/DUBBED/ENGLISH/
void
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Re: Request: Advanced Copy/Move/Rename regex stacking

Post by void »

I will consider an option to do this.
Thank you for the suggestion.

This will most likely need to be another UI dialog.

"advanced advanced rename"
with a single format edit.

or, maybe an option to toggle multiple patterns.
I would like to keep the advanced renamer as simpler as possible.


For now, run the advanced renamer multiple times.
raccoon
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Re: Request: Advanced Copy/Move/Rename regex stacking

Post by raccoon »

Yeah, I don't have a very good sales pitch. I understand probably fewer than a thousand Everything users have used the Advanced Renamer, and probably fewer than 10 of them know Regex, and I might be the only one of them who has a use for batched sequences. :)

But if you were to add an experimental multiple passes batch renaming from a single input, I wouldn't be upset if that sequence were inputted into the "Old Format" editbox, and I just left the "New Format" editbox blank and ignored.
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