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Rearrange Rule
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Split options explained
Option:
Delimiters
What it does:
Chop the name where the delimiter occurs.
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The delimiter can be a single character or a string.
The chopped parts do not contain the delimiters (they are omitted totally)
Spaces, numbers and symbols are treated like normal characters.
Several delimiters can be used at a time. Use the | character to separate them.
The chopped parts are numbered from left, as $1, $2, $3, etc.
The same parts can be referred from the end as $-1, $-2, $-3, etc.
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If the delimiter occurs at the very beginning of the name, the resultant $1 contains nothing (because there is nothing on the left
side of the delimiter).
Warning: The number of parts into which the filename is broken down depends solely on the number of delimiters in the filename.
If you reference fewer parts in the output pattern that the number of available parts - not referenced parts will be lost! For example,
take filename "Artist - Title" and to swap them around one would use " - " as a delimiter and "$2 - $1" as a new pattern which will
result in "Title - Artist", but if some filename appears with more dashes like "Artist - Title - Album" the result will also be "Title Artist" and last part will be lost. To make sure that no parts are lost use Exact pattern of delimiters option instead.
Positions
Chop the name at the indicated position (the position count begins with 1).
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If you enter position n, ReNamer will chop the n-th character and all characters beyond that in a separate piece.
Spaces, numbers and symbols are treated like normal characters.
No part of the original name is omitted during chopping.
You can enter multiple positions. Separate them with the *|* sequence.
The chopped parts are numbered from left, as $1, $2, $3, etc.
The same parts can be referred from the end as $-1, $-2, $-3, etc.
Exact pattern Chop the name using the exact pattern (sequence) of the delimiters.
of delimiters With this option you basically define how many parts you want the filename to be split into and the order in which the delimiters
must occur. If you specify 1 delimiter then you end up with exactly 2 parts, if you specify 2 delimiters you'll get 3 parts, and so on.
Examples
This rule is so versatile that it can be used in a huge number of ways. Therefore its examples have been moved to a
separate article Rearrange Examples.