I've been thinking about how to solve the issue of stopping all commas from being replaced by 'feat.' in my action definition. If we had an occurrence option with say 1 - 5 as the selection. Then it would only run that action based on how many times it found a match. ie: If I only wanted to replac…

[image] djquartz: Currently I just want the first instance to be replaced. Try an action of the type "Format value" for ARTIST Format string: $regexp(%artist%,'(.*?), (.*)',$1 feat. $2)

In many cases this use case can be tackled by a regular expression. see e.g. here: [image] Action Definition Question replace first comma with feat Mac This is going to sound like a weird one, but I'm not sure how to fix this one. I have an action that I use both in Mac …

This would be for both Windows and MacOS.

If you want to replace all occurences of a string, then use a simple replace. If you want to replace only those matching a certain pattern, use replace wth a regular expression. It would be up to the user to determine a valid pattern - just like it would be up to the user to determine, how many ti…

Not sure about you but i don't know how to use regex properly so I made a longer roundabout way of doing this using just what's available under the scripting functions on the main website. Artist 1, Artist 2, Artist 3, Artist 4 In the example above i've made a formula that would change the last co…

[image] mista_j: Artist 1, Artist 2, Artist 3, Artist 4 To replace the last comma with an &, try: $regexp('Artist 1, Artist 2, Artist 3, Artist 4','(.*), (.*)',$1 & $2) If you are not sure whether you have already inserted an &, then use $regexp($replace('Artist 1, Artist 2, Artist 3, Arti…

Oo. Thank you. I need to learn regular expression because that seems much simpler than everything i went through

Thank you, too. So the summary is: until such an occurance option is implemented, use normal replace or replace with regular expressions, both functions which are already available.

To add context to this. The problem wasn't that I couldn't replace the commas. I'm currently using the replace group command. It looks for comma, space (, ) to be replaced in the filename and artist fields with 'feat.' It's works but replaces all instances found. Currently I just want the first i…

[image] Tool to visualize (and explain) regular expressions? Support Out of curiosity, did you make that visualization yourself or are you using a tool I'm not aware of? Looks really neat to quickly understand a more complicated regex. This thread mentions a few helpf…

* Feature Request * Occurrence option on Replace action

General Discussion

ohrenkino February 6, 2024, 2:41pm 2

In many cases this use case can be tackled by a regular expression.
see e.g. here:

and as you posted in the Mac section before: does this request aim at the Mac version?