Can you do multi substitions in ONE Multi Rename?

[louwin]

I did search the forum and found 6107 matches but the few I checked didn't address my question. I also asked Copilot and, even though he had two suggestions (Regex), neither worked so I thought I'd ask here....

I want to change (for instance) all occurrences of abc to ABC, lmn to LMN and xyz to XYZ in multiple filenames. All three in one preset Multi Rename. Is this possible?

Copilot suggested - search: (abc|lmn|xyz) Replace @@$1@@ and "Subst!". There were other suggestions Replace $1 but, as said, they didn't work....

[nsp]

yes it is possible for plain string.
if you want to replace 1 by a, 2 by b,... 9 by i you can do:

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search for: 1|2|3|4|0|5|6|7|8|9
Replace by: a|b|c|d||e|f|g|h|i 

--edited // an empty place holder in replace, will delete the corresponding match. i.e all 0 will be deleted

keep also in mind that replacement will be done from left to right one at the time See the next sample

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1|2|a
a|b|c  

Will replace all 1 by a, all 2 by b and all a (including replaced 1) by c

[white]

Copilot suggested - search: (abc|lmn|xyz) Replace @@$1@@ and "Subst!". There were other suggestions Replace $1 but, as said, they didn't work....

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Search for: (abc|lmn|xyz)
Replace wit: \U$1

[X] RegEx

If the strings can occur in the extension too, deselect [E]. In that case, if you're using the same operation for folders as well, add [I] in front of the filename mask.

[louwin]

Search for: (abc|lmn|xyz)
Replace wit: \U$1

Thanks white You're an ABSOLUTE marvel!!!! Just change the to \U! BEAUTIFUL!!!!

[louwin]

I did further experimentation and found you can do it without RegEx by....

Search: abc|lmn|xyz
Replace: ABC|LMN|XYZ

Case closed?

Thanks for your responses....

[louwin]

yes it is possible for plain string.
if you want to replace 1 by a, 2 by b,... 9 by i you can do:

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search for: 1|2|3|4|0|5|6|7|8|9
Replace by: a|b|c|d||e|f|g|h|i 

Sorry, nsp.... YOU answered my question perfectly BEFORE my experimentation. Thanks