Regex first character Alphabet only

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#1

If have used Regex before but I am stumbling over trying to determine %artist% that begin with alphabet character. I am trying to batch convert tag to filename.

I have several artists that begin with numeric or non-alphabet characters:

.38 Special
+44
3 Doors Down
(Crosses)

I would like these to to move to a folder named 0-9 and those starting with alphabet character to move to A...Z fodlers based on their first letter.

Here is what I came up with but everything moves to 0-9

$if((((NOT %artist% MATCHES ^\w) OR (%artist% MATCHES ^\d))),0-9\\%artist%,$left(%artistsort%,1)\\%artist%))

I have also trie the following:

$if(($or(($not(%artist% MATCHES ^[a-zA-Z])),(%artist% MATCHES ^\d))),"0-9\"%artist%,$left(%artistsort%,1)\\%artist%))

$if((%artist% MATCHES ^\W),0-9,$left(%artistsort%,1)))

Any suggestions?

#2

Please don't forget:
Where do you want to move special characters like Д or Э or Ø or 菅?
Should they go to 0-9 too?

And there some more like
!distain
[product]
.hiDDen tiMe
!!!

There are even some characters who seems to be between A-Z (example: ВЕЧЕ or РАРОГЪ), but the B and P are not the usual one...

Sorry, not really helpful. Just my 2 cents.

Organize music into folders based on first initial
#3

You mixed Filter syntax with script functions, that's not supported.

Try this:
$iflonger($regexp($left(%artist%,1),'^[.+(\d]',0-9),2,0-9,$left(%artistsort%,1))

#4
$ifgreater($len(%ARTIST%),$len($regexp(%ARTIST%,'^[^[:alpha:]]',)),'0-9',$upper($left(%ARTIST%,1)))

... or ...

$iflonger(%ARTIST%,$len($regexp(%ARTIST%,'^[^[:alpha:]]',)),'0-9',$upper($left(%ARTIST%,1)))

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