Multi rename tool: way to find the correct offsets '[N1-3]'?

[miskox]

Hi all!

I was wondering if this is currently possible. For example:

I have a file named:

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some very long file name with numbers 123.ext

Maybe I want to MultiRename it with something like:

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[N1-3]-[N6-7]

I would like to have an option to highlight (or show with different colors - something like Excel does) each part of Old Filename - so I know which part is selected with each 'command' (ie [N]). I have to do trial/error to find the correct offsets (and to be sure not to include too many characters).

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[color=red]som[/color]e [color=orange]ve[/color]ry long file name with numbers 123.ext

Saso

[Dalai]

I have to do trial/error to find the correct offsets (and to be sure not to include too many characters).

No need. Just press the "[N#-#] Range" button and select the part you want to keep/insert. In TC 9.0 there are even improvements made to this very dialog, so it's more powerful.

Regards
Dalai

[brian]

I have to do trial/error to find the correct offsets (and to be sure not to include too many characters).

No need. Just press the "[N#-#] Range" button and select the part you want to keep/insert. In TC 9.0 there are even improvements made to this very dialog, so it's more powerful.

Regards
Dalai

Jaaaaaa.... no.

this is NOT what he meant. Read again, or write a formula in Excel to see what he wanted.


To the OP:
You can't do what you want, not yet. Only slightly irrelevant tip I can give you is this:
If you want to select the LAST characters of a filename, you do that with
[N-#-1] where '#' is higher than 1. Note the minus sign betweeen N and #

If you have some files with names like:

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some very long file name numbers 123.ext 
some very long file name numbers 456.ext 
some very long file name with numbers 789.ext

Then, [N1-9] [N-3-1] would result in

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some very 123.ext 
some very 456.ext 
some very 789.ext 

And, [N1-9] [N-8-1] would result in

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some very bers 123.ext 
some very bers 456.ext 
some very bers 789.ext 

[miskox]

@brian: thank you very much. Very useful.

Saso