Rename Special: Spaces to hyphens, Hyphens to spaces

[John_C]

There is already an option to convert spaces to underscores and underscores back to spaces, but there is no such thing for hyphens. There are quite a lot of people who prefer hyphens, not underscores, so I think it will be fine to have such renaming in XY.

Actually, what most file-naming style guides suggest is to use spaces for hyphens, while underscores to delimit metadata parts. Something like this:

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... \graphic-design\new-logo-for-bmw_v3_approved.psd

[VeeGee]

Good afternoon !
I found myself using spaces to hyphens, hyphens to spaces quite a bit lately and just added a few patterns to the Rename Special > RegEx Rename... menu :

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[ ] > -

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[-] >  

I'm not the best regex-er, but this is working for my file structures. Probably a cleaner way.

What I haven't done is look to see if these menu entries support a naming reminder.
For example,

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Hyphens to Space,[-] >  

would show friendly reminder text in the rename dialog as to what the pattern does.

[John_C]

Yes, thanks. I don't really need to convert spaces to hyphens myself, all of my files are already named correctly :-)

I just mean that having support for underscores but not having support for hyphens is "technically unfair".

[admin]

Yes, it's "technically unfair", but nobody ever complained in the last 20 years. Let's see if you can get a crowd together.