Show the cmd regex expression that advanced renamer uses?

Hi,
It would be immensely useful to be able to see how the replace or add or remove etc. command is expressed in a command line command + regular expression.

I use advanced renamer for very simple tasks like inserting text at index 0 of a file name when I would rather to use the command line. But its an excessive level of googling to find out how, when advanced renamer could just tell me. Is there a way to show this?

Thanks,
Blabbo

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Do you really mean "Command Line" or Advanced Renamer's "Script Method".

The script method assumes a knowledge of JavaScript and Regular Expressions. Whilst confusing at first it isn't a terribly steep learning curve if you employ some intelligent Googling. I have found hits at www.w3schools.com particularly helpful.

If you browse previous threads on this forum you will find a lot of examples of scripting and the use of regular expressions.

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Reply to #2:
Hi,
Thanks, i'll check it out.

Ideally, I would like to know the equivalent command to be put into the command line to achieve the same result by writing into the command line.

But from your response I gather that advanced renamer doesn't work by writing scripts into the command line in the background, instead it is a standalone javascript program.

If this is the case, I wonder if there is way just to show the equivalent regular expression of the text I am asking. For example; how to say ' index 0 of filename' It would be a really fast way to learn regular expressions.

Thanks,
Seb

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Reply to #3:
Advanced Renamer's "Command line automation" facility allows you to run previously saved method lists from a batch file - so you still have to set up the renaming algorithms in the main program.

It's not obvious what you mean by "index 0 of filename" - can you try to be a bit more explicit?

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