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willz

Member

Registered: 2006-09-20

Posts: 1

Striping Out Prefix Numbers

Hello there

I would like to start by saying I have been looking for a program like this for ages, I?m well pleased with it.

But my questions is this, I have a load of files all names in numerical order like this

0001 - Afilename.zip
0002 - Bfilename.zip
0003 - Cfilename.zip

But I need to get rid of the numbers and spacers at the beginnings so they will sort in alphabetical order.

any help will be great

cheers,

den4b

Administrator

From: den4b.com

Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 3,440

Re: Striping Out Prefix Numbers

Hi willz

To do that you can simply use Delete rule: from position 1 until delimiter "-" (dash). This will remove everything from the beginning to the first dash, including the dash it self. To fix up the spaces, use CleanUp rule: fix spaces option. There are also few other very sophisticated ways of doing the same thing - using RegEx or PascalScript rules, but these 2 steps above should do the job.

Denis.

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