Multi rename bonus - Trim leading/trailing spaces

[freenylon]

A handy little addition to multi rename's checkbox options would be "Trim spaces" to remove leading & trailing spaces.

Another bonus would be "Remove double spaces", because they're a pain - and does anyone ever really want a double space in a filename?

[Dreamer]

Try this workaround, backup your files first.

For File name use:

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@@@@@[n]

For File extension use:

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$$$$$[e]

For Search and replace - Search for use:

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@@@@@ |  | .$$$$$|@@@@@|$$$$$

For Replace with use:

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| |.||

Enable option ""Replace all occurrences" and disable option "Exclude extension".

Now click to Profiles, +, add name like "Trim leading/trailing spaces and remove double spaces" to this profile.

You can try to use this profile.

You can combine it with other options too, just use a separator "|".

For example: at the beginning of the fields: "Search for" add "_|" and for "Replace with" add " |".

BTW If anything goes wrong, you can still use menu - Command - Undo.

[Forez]

IMHO a Profile will always be just a workaround. Therefore:


At minimum:

I propose adding new section named >>Trim double white spaces<< with mutually selectable options:

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● leading
● middle ones
● closing

As a moderate middle ground:

I propose adding section named >>Remove white spaces<< with mutually selectable options:

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● at beginning
● in middle
● at end
● everywhere [which would gray out / cancel any one of the 3 above]

● all
● multiple
● double

And these last 3 options would either
● change text to a single string
● turn every 3 and more adjacent white spaces into 1
● turn every 2 adjacent white spaces into 1


At maximum:

Options like these above would not be limited to / hardcoded for white spaces, but instead they would apply to a new box in which users could write whatever string of any kind of characters. So this would be like a regular expressions options with few basic possibilities - but for users who do not know how to write regular expressions. And thus name of this new section would have to be something like >>Replace (short) string occurrences<<