Everything Rename globbing error

[therube]

Everything Rename (1351)


is this right?

source:
cancersurvivorspark281560
cancersurvivorspark171547
cancersurvivorspark161548
cancersurvivorspark151546
cancersurvivorspark141544

old: cancersurvivorspark%115%2
new: cancersurvivorspark%115%2 - park%1

renamed:
cancersurvivorspark281560 - park28.jpg
cancersurvivorspark171547 - park17.jpg
cancersurvivorspark161548 - park16.jpg
cancersurvivorspark151546 - park.jpg
cancersurvivorspark141544 - park14.jpg


shouldn't 151546 have ended up at 15 ?



same results with regex: (still missing, 15)?

old: ^cancersurvivorspark(.*?)15(.*?)$
new: cancersurvivorspark\115\2 - park\1
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[NotNull]

When 'normal' Everything search replace is activated (as in your first example), the %1 syntax uses lazy matching (expressed in regex terminbology)

So for filename cancersurvivorspark151546, old syntax cancersurvivorspark%115%2 will search for the first 15 after cancersurvivorpark and calls that %1. In this case cancersurvivorpark and 15 are right beside each other, making %1=<nothing>



In the regex example,

.*?

(lazy) matches zero or more characters, making the first capture group (.*?) empty.
Which causes \1 to be empty.

This can be solved for this specific case by using (.+?) instead of (.*?) for the first capture group as

.+

matches one or more characters:

Code: Select all

OLD = ^cancersurvivorspark(.+?)15(.*?)$

(all untested, btw)

[therube]

I'll just note that the regex: version I show above, is what was Everything came up with, by default.

And with that (.+) [at \1] looks to be OK.