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Field: DUMMY
Regular expression: (.*)\s((\d-)?\d{2})\s(.+)
Replace with: $2 $1 - $4

My regexp is tripping up on strings like this because they contain numbers in the title part:

Vierne 07 Divertissement (No.11 of 24 pièces en style libre, Op.31).flac

I'm trying to get Vierne and 07 to swap places and to add a hyphen:
07 Vierne - Divertissement (No.11 of 24 pièces en style libre, Op.31).flac

But I'm getting:
24 of - pièces en style libre, Op.31).flac

The regexp is settling on "of 24" instead of "Vierne 07". Can anyone explain how to get it to take the first match? I've tried all sorts of combinations using ^ (at the front) and ? (for non-greedy repeats), but admit I'm a bit lost.

Thanks

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RE: ^(.*?)\s((\d-)?\d{2})\s(.+)

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Ah, thanks.

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Ok, now a related one. This action is actually the preceding one in my action group. Its purpose is to discard one or more forenames.

Field: DUMMY
Regular expression: ^.?\s(.+\s(\d-)?\d{2}\s.)
Replace with: $1

This needs to work with strings like:
Louis Vierne 07 Divertissement (No.11 of 24 pièces en style libre, Op.31).flac
Louis James Alfred Lefebure-Wely 12 Sortie in E flat major.flac

All names except the last need to be dropped, but in each case this regexp only drops the first name. Again, I'm stuck on how to make it behave as I need it. Any ideas, please?

I've noticed that by removing the first ? from the regexp it actually works on the 2nd string above, but like my earlier regexp it fails on the 1st because it matches " of 24 " in the title.