removing dates in random locations of filename

eml.21.04.24.meeting.at.5pm

i have a pile of photos and docs with this format and i want to just remove the dates from the and leave just

eml.meeting.at.5pm

i think his is done with expressions, but im no programmer and very lost

any help would be great

Shaun

You can use the regular expression "\d\d\.\d\d\.\d\d" to match and remove dates in the format: "yy.mm.dd".

Depending upon where in the filename the date string is situated you will be left with an unwanted dot either at the beginning or the end or else a double dot somewhere in the middle.

So use a List replace method with three lines...

1) Replace: \d\d\.\d\d\.\d\d with: nothing
2) Replace: (^\.)|(\.$) with nothing
3) Replace \.\. with .