Converting year to (year)

Hi

I was wondering if its possible to parse a filename to find the first 4 number combination ie a year in format YXXX where Y is either 1 or 2 and X is 0-9 and then insert a "(" before Y and a ")" after the last number, X number 3. And if no such string is found skip to next file.

Its this or renaming 1000 movies by hand.

Best regards

Dac

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Reply to #1:

I suppose 2 problems could be

1 - where there already is an "(" before and or an ")" after - ie if before -> skip to next file

2 - Disregard the secuence 1080 as in 1080p

I will have a look if I can figure out how to script this myself

/Dac

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Reply to #1:
To put ( and ) around years in file names you can use the Replace method and configure it like this:

Text to be replaced: ([12]\d{3})
Replace with: (\1)
Use regular expressions: Checked
Apply to: Name

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Reply to #3:


It worked - just included occurence 1rst to not parse 1080p into brackets.

Other than that I only had to unmark files that already had () but that took mere minutes.

Awesome program - very powerful and thanx so very much for the help.

/Dac

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