Here is a sample filename: 00000508+GREATER VISION+SCARS & STRIPES+00.0.MP3. I noticed after I emailed it that the number code has exactly 11 numbers (besides the 3 in mp3), so I created a do...while loop to take out the numbers. The expression I used looked like this //[0-9]// then the directory /home/user/*. This seemed to have worked for the numbers.
I noticed another problem though how do you use expressions to take away one '.'. See in in the time between mins and seconds there is a period. Thanks Jeff and anyone else who chooses to look at my newbie problem. David On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 09:37, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: > On Aug 5, David Smith said: > > > I have a couple of problems. I have multiple files on a server that are > >all audio files. Some are mp3, some are waves. I need to change there > >names because of a new automation system being put in here at the > >station. The files are curretly laid out with a series of > >numbers+songtitle+artist+time.ext. What I simply need to do is remove > >the numbers (except for the 3 in mp3), and change the + to _. I found a > >script that will do this with regular expressions. Here is the problem > >though. I run the script and it does not loop through the file to take > >out all of the numbers unless I run it several times. It also refuses to > >take out the +. I'm really really new to perl...in fact I know just > >enough to be extremely dangerous :D. If anyone could point me in the > >right direction I would appreciate. > > You didn't show us how you tried running the program. I'll show you first > how to change the +'s to _'s. But I need to know WHICH numbers should be > removed from the filename. All of them (except for the 3 in mp3), or just > those at the beginning of the filename? > > ./rename 'tr/+/_/' files > > or > > ./rename 's/\+/_/g' files > > -- > Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ > RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ > <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. > [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] David Smith Programmable Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
