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Hi all,

A (hopefully) small question:

I have loads of filenames which are formed like this:
word1 word2 - something_else.txt
I would like to change them into:
word2, word1 - something_else.txt

How (and where) can I do this, i.e. switch word1 and word2, and put a comma in between?

Thanks!

Use Multi rename (Ctrl+M):

Thanks, Jody, but I think I wasn't sufficiently "general" in my original post. I think your method only works when you know the exact length of the things you want to switch - but I don't know that length.

Obviously, "word1" and "word2" are just placeholders. I would like to turn

Jack Jones - something1.txt
Emmanuel Williamson - somethingdifferent.txt

into

Jones, Jack - something1.txt
Williamson, Emmanuel - somethingdifferent.txt

So I suppose some regex will be required, but I don't have a clue about those things...

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Got it!
- Use "Multirename" (duh)
- Tick "Regular expression"
- in "Search for", put: ([a-z]+) ([a-z]+)
- in "Replace with", put: $2, $1

This turns
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea.txt
into
Hemingway, Ernest - The Old Man and the Sea.txt

Maybe it needs some finetuning, but for me it works.

Nice job!

P.S. don't forget the numbers if you want your first example to work...
([a-z0-9]+) ([a-z0-9]+)