Remove all letters from specific word except the first
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#1 : 25/05-22 17:36 david mcgowan
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I have a load of files named
Firstname Secondname_001 Firstname Secondname_002 and i want them to be Firstname S_001 how can i specify to remove everything either 2 characters after the space or from the second character of word 2 |
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#2 : 26/05-22 07:41 David Lee
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Try Remove pattern...
Pattern: [^ ]* \w\K[^_]* Use regular expressions Edit.... More simply... Pattern " \w\K[^_]*" (note: pattern starts with space) |
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#3 : 26/05-22 18:06 david mcgowan
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Reply to #2:
oh i see... you need to include the caret to signify the character..... lol, i was so close. and what does the K do? |
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#4 : 26/05-22 23:59 David Lee
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Reply to #3:
"^" means "NOT" So [^xyz] matches any character not listed (ie NOT x,y or z) The metacharacter \K is an instruction not to include the preceding matched characters in the preceding match. Thus the regex "[^ ]* \w\K" must match a string of any number of non-space characters followed by a space and a single word character but the matched characters are not included in the final text to be removed. The remainder of the regex, "[^_]*", then matches any characters until an underscore is encountered - and this string is removed. |