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Removing characters from filenames

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
April 8, 2022
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Hello friends, how are you?
I'm having trouble modifying a script whose purpose is to remove all special characters, spaces and letters leaving only the digits that represent the numerical order in the name of all files in a folder, but I found an error when there are Parentheses [ ( ) ] "(1).jpg ", = 201.jpg .
I don't know how to remove the unwanted initial two digits, could anyone help me out there? Thanks.

var folder = Folder.selectDialog("Selecione a pasta de destino")
var files = folder.getFiles();
var file, extension;
for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++){
    file = files[i];
    extension = file.name.slice(file.name.length-4, file.name.length);
    file.rename(file.name.replace(/[^\d]+/g,"")+extension);
}

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Correct answer Kukurykus

decodeURI(file.name)

Arafin Sardar

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It is better to download this file and save it in a folder. And then select it and click the right button on the mouse. Then you will get an option to rename it. From where you can change the file name.

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Kukurykus

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You mean doing everything manually?

KukurykusCorrect answer

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decodeURI(file.name)

Shulipa BernadAuthor

Inspiring

@Kukurykus your solution worked perfectly. Thanks again for your help.
Fully functional run script:

var folder = Folder.selectDialog("Selecione a pasta de destino")
var files = folder.getFiles();
var file, extension;
for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++){
    file = files[i];
    extension = file.name.slice(file.name.length-4, file.name.length);
    file.rename(decodeURI(file.name).replace(/[^\d]+/g,"")+extension);
}

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Lumigraphics

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That's still not a good regex.

^ from the beginning

[\d] replace a numerical digit

+ one or more instances

/g global find

If you have global find, it makes no sense to specify from the beginning. Which do you want?

Replace one or more should be [\d+] not [\d]+ although I'm not sure if the regex parser will accept both.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

One method:

var folder = Folder.selectDialog("Selecione a pasta de destino")
var files = folder.getFiles();
var file, extension;
for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++){
    file = files[i];
    extension = file.name.replace(/(?:.+)(\.[^\.]+$)/, '$1');
    file.rename(file.name.replace(/(?:.+\()(\d+)(?:\).+)/g, "$1") + extension);
}

Shulipa BernadAuthor

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Hi @Stephen Marsh the main objective is to eliminate all characters, letters and spaces, leaving only the digits of any file name, even if it has parentheses or not. Does not work for all names:

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Ah, sorry, I made it explicit to your initial example, not robust and general purpose. Now that I can see your new post, I understand what you are after now.

The reason that I removed the slice in the extension and used a regex was that not all filename extensions are a period + 3 characters (.ai files for example).

I recently discovered .displayName which also works in this case:

file.rename(file.displayName.replace(/[^\d]+/g,"")+extension);

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Lumigraphics

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Post the entire script.

Shulipa BernadAuthor

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Hi @Lumigraphics , the script was posted complete above, no more and no less, do you receive any error messages? Just select a folder with some files that have Parentheses [( ) ] "(1).jpg ".

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Lumigraphics

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That's not the whole script, your regular expression just replaces one or more numerical digits.

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