Regex-Rename with backreferences

[rclkrtrzckr]

Hi all

I have a bunch of files with a similar filename:

19-05-01_onetwothree.pdf
19-06-02_anotherone.pdf

The first 6 characters are the date these files were created (I get them from my insurance that way). Now I'd like to rename them to match my file naming conventions (YYYYMMDD_....). On a unix system, I would probably do something like this (untested):

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s/^([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})_/20\1\2\3_/

Is there a way to do this in XYplorer? In the help, there's only one example, where the regex is used to match the files to be renamed.

Thanks in advance

André

[highend]

As long as you only have those files (that need to be renamed) selected,
right click them, "Rename Special" - "RegExp Rename..."

^(.) > 20$1

[rclkrtrzckr]

As long as you only have those files (that need to be renamed) selected,
right click them, "Rename Special" - "RegExp Rename..."

^(.) > 20$1

Awesome, thanks!