Deleting Redundant/Old Data Out Of File Names

[LyricsLover]

@dec

but i can't work out just where (what MP3Tag function) i can use wild cards

Do you remember this thread?

How to edit a text string with wild card chars?

so say i have a Duration/Length text string like this ... (0345min) as you can see, it is missing its separator (i accidently deleted it when i did a global replace of '_') now if i could use normal wild cards that would be quite simple replace ??min) > -??min) but it seems that i can't use wild cards, and i find no mention of 'wild cards' so .. if i CAN use wild cards (w/o Regex), what is the correct syntax? if i CAN'T use wild cards, what can i do? i assume only a Regex express…

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@dec

the length from the start is of course highly variable: and also the length from teh END (due the differing data)

Do you remember this at least two threads:

How to Cutright from a char str: can't get it work

Picard just automatically just trashed all my File Names and added rubbish at the end of each file name without so much as a say-so. it did other damage as well, but i am/have fixed most of that. i have worked out that the last valid string at the end of every file name is "(NORM)" see attached example so i want to truncate the file name from that to the rhs end of file name but do you think i can work out a way that actually works! i played with $left and $cut right and $strstr, but i coul…

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Odd STRCHR Error

i found a whole lot of files w/o Artist, for some reason, although it is in Filename, and fortutiously has a '-' separator but i cannot get $strchr (with Cutright) to play nicely to extract the Artist precisely from Filename it seems quite weird. if i use Cutleft it extracts the rest of the Filename string exactly if i use Strrchr, it makes no difference ie it cuts to exactly the same place (meaning that there is only one in the string) but Cutright cuts to a completely different position t…

So what exactly have you already tried and where don't you get the expected result?

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