Rename File Names

[highend]

That's because it runs through all months for each file and therefore it would only rename files that use december as it's month...

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    setting "BackgroundFileOps", 0;
    $l_months = "Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec";
    foreach ($filename, "<get SelectedItemsNames |>") {
        $i=1;
        $newName = "";
        foreach ($month, $l_months) {
            if (regexmatches($filename, "\b$month[a-z]+\b")) {
                $newName = regexreplace(regexreplace($filename, "\b".$month."[a-z]+\b (\d\d*), (\d{4})", "$2.".$i.".$1"), "\b(\d)\b", "0$1");
                break;
            }
            $i++;
        }
        if ($newName) { renameitem($newName, $filename); }
    }

[armsys]

That's because it runs through all months for each file and therefore it would only rename files that use december as it's month...

Finally, your script works brilliantly. Thanks a million.

[FluxTorpedoe]

The script fails to rename the selected filenames, except the first one.

Well, no real problem with the months per se, it’s because in your code, the $NewName variable that you added was set the first time:

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$NewName = regexreplace(regexreplace($filename,…

but then wasn’t reset before each next file.
So by using only $NewName in the regex you can just reset it with $NewName = $filename;.

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"Date converter"

 $l_months = "Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec";
 foreach ($filename, <get SelectedItemsNames |>) { $i=1;
  $NewName = $filename;
  foreach ($month, $l_months) {
    $NewName = regexreplace(regexreplace($NewName, "\b".$month."[a-z]+\b (\d\d*), (\d{4})", "$2.".$i++.".$1"), "\b(\d)\b", "0$1");
    }                               
    renameitem($NewName, $filename);
    }

Edit: Hehe, a bit late to post. Thanks highend for the “maintenance”.

[armsys]

Hi Flux,
Thanks you for your fast help.
Thanks you for speeding up my XY script learning.