Renaming Files

[snaggle2th]

This plug-in is awesome!! I love the renaming capabilities. I did find out that the [replace] feature did not seem to work unless there was a space before the last square bracket. Once I knew about it, it was fine, but if this is intentional, maybe it could be emphasized in the docs.
My question is: What is the correct way to use an escape character for the pattern and/or replacement? I have some files with square brackets in the original names, but I can't seem to escape them in either pattern or replacement with the normal backslash. Either one seems to break the functionality.

[kamilburda]

Hi, try duplicating the square brackets before applying the backslash, i.e. \[[ and \]].

For instance, for an image named animal, the pattern [replace, [image name], [a], [\[[] ] would rename the image to [nim[l.

The extra space requirement before the closing bracket is due to a bug in the implementation, and I'm too lazy to fix it at the moment. 😅

In any case, I'll clarify this bit in the docs as I did not realize that using literal square brackets in the regular expressions would require escaping with a backslash due to it being a special character in regexes. I'll also add a reference to the section on inserting reserved characters under several fields, including [replace] to make it more visible, as you suggested.

And thank you 😊

[snaggle2th]

Doubling up on the square bracket worked! I'll be using this all the time. Thanks.