Remove leading zeros from filenames

[jaimep70636492]

How can I use string substitution to batch remove leading zeros from filenames? For example, I want to change 2020_001_002 to 2020_1_2. 

[gary_sc]

Hi Jaime,

Within Bridge I do not think so. However, if you are on a Mac you can use the application "A Better Finder Rename" which can use Regular Expressions.

see: https://medium.com/@johnlreed/a-better-finder-rename-and-regular-expressions-7f0b9645a002

Not sure it helps you but it might get your thoughts going

[Lumigraphics]

You can use regular expressions. /00/g would find all instances of "00" in files.

https://www.regular-expressions.info/

[Stephen Marsh]

In it's simplest form, one does not even need a regular expression, a simple find/replace for 00 is all that is required.

Of course, if there are double zero digits in the filename that do need to be retained, then you need to introduce a regular expression based pattern match.