Rename Search & Replace with Regex Help

[Arthur]

Hi there;
Trying to sort renaming with Regex and stuck with one step I simply cannot get to work, although all the regex validators are showing this to be correct and working.

Test string:

10. filename.ext

Regex search:
^((\d{2})\.(?=\s))
or
(^(\d{2}\.)(?=\s))
or whatever else that is returning the '10.' from the string above or just the dot

Replace with:
\100
which would give it 10.00 filename.ext

The fact that lookbehind neither positive nor negative is not supported, does not help either.

Could someone help with this, what am I doing wrong ??

[loicaigon]

I am not sure you are doing something wrong. I did some experiments here

Search:
(.+?\.)(.+)

Replace
$100$2

That doesn't work neither when it should.

If you have Metadata module, it's easy to recombine the string. Same stands with the scripting module.

Hoping there is some way

[Arthur]

If it was only about this one type of string I probably would, but basicly what I am trying to achieve is to get all different types of naming conventions starting with numerical sections / hierarchy description, to end up compliant with 00.00 filename.ext mask.

so basicly all the
1 filename
10 filename
10. filename
1.1 filename
1.1. filename
10.1. filename
etc.

they all shall in the end be renamed to match the mask as per the above - 00.00 filename.ext (keeping they referenced hierarchical section as indicated in the initial filename).
As I have got sometimes tens or hundreds of files to merge together in a specific order as per sections they belong to.
The sections are then divided with dividers/tabs that go in between them and make for a section start, so effectively they need to have the same numbering mask applied with only 1 addition of an '_' between the hierarchical number and the filename (in the FilenameProper) and a suffix (ie: 00.00_filename_divider.ext).
So all together then need to be sorted in the order of a FilenameProper and merged together. Sometimes such publication can comprise few thousand pages....

So I designed a flow with several steps checking the name and adding zeroes or dots where needed, but unfortunately the queried Regex does not seem to work
I do not have script module.
Would this then be a bug, to be reported, that what comes as obvious does not work ??

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[Arthur]

perfect. Thank you for your suggestions.
I will definitely have this in mind should I experience any more troublesome issues.
This one however I resolved, although I must admit that the Regex Syntax / Flavour seems a bit different to what is common elsewhere.
But I finally got it working.

[loicaigon]

Andrew,
if you got it working, it's nice to share