How to use Rename Special "RegExp Rename..."?

[klopi]

i want to rename a lot of folders formated like "Artist - Album (Year)" into "Artist - (Year) Album". I bet it's pretty easy with RegExp Rename if you know how it works but i don't get it .
either someone can tell me how it works or simply write me the correctly regex (this would also help me a bit to understand how it works).

thanks

[highend]

There are many ways to do it, e.g.:

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(.*?\s-\s)(.*?)\s(\(.*?\)) > $1$3 $2

3 capture groups (surrounded by round parenthesis) and you're assigning them bei $1, $2 and $3. $2 and $3 are switched.
\s = a space
\( or \) = a literal ( or )
.*? capture any character (non greedy)

Test it on a few items first...

[klopi]

works perfeclty
and thanks for the explanation

i think they should add some examples into the yellow textfield above the inputfield like they did at the other rename specials.