# Copy file or folder name to clipboard, ignore extension etc

**URL:** <https://resource.dopus.com/t/copy-file-or-folder-name-to-clipboard-ignore-extension-etc/32572>\
**Category:** Help & Support\
**Created:** [May 20, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/copy-file-or-folder-name-to-clipboard-ignore-extension-etc/32572 "2019-05-20T04:52:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 10:17am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/copy-file-or-folder-name-to-clipboard-ignore-extension-etc/32572/22 "2019-06-22T10:17:49Z")

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Try this:

```nohighlight
Clipboard COPYNAMES=nopaths REGEXP "(.*[^]) ?(\(|\[).+(\)|\])(.*)" \1\4

```

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**Author:** ![khalidhosain](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/khalidhosain/32/28729_2.png) [@khalidhosain](https://resource.dopus.com/u/khalidhosain)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/copy-file-or-folder-name-to-clipboard-ignore-extension-etc/32572/23 "2019-06-23T07:24:08Z")

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Thaks Leo for replay.  
Extra Space is fixed But The file Extension is not Fixed.

Original File Name : ABCE (test).txt  
After Using This Code: ABCE.txt  
Feed Back: Big problem is here is the File Extension. Please Remove The File extension for fix the code.

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**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2019, 10:03am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/copy-file-or-folder-name-to-clipboard-ignore-extension-etc/32572/24 "2019-06-23T10:03:56Z")

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Try this:

```nohighlight
Clipboard COPYNAMES=nopaths REGEXP "(.*[^]) ?(\(|\[).+(\)|\])(.*)" \1\4 (.*)\.[^\.]+$ \1

```

I recommend learning regular expressions so you can do this yourself, as it's be much faster than waiting for us to get exactly what you want.

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**Author:** ![khalidhosain](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/khalidhosain/32/28729_2.png) [@khalidhosain](https://resource.dopus.com/u/khalidhosain)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2019, 10:31am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/copy-file-or-folder-name-to-clipboard-ignore-extension-etc/32572/25 "2019-06-23T10:31:04Z")

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Thanks Leo, Problem Solved  
Where can I Learn regular expressions?

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**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2019, 10:34am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/copy-file-or-folder-name-to-clipboard-ignore-extension-etc/32572/26 "2019-06-23T10:34:14Z")

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We have an introduction to them here:

> [@RegExp basics: Removing characters from start/end of names](https://resource.dopus.com/t/regexp-basics-removing-characters-from-start-end-of-names/5400):
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> See also: [Script to perform multiple Regular Expressions](https://resource.dopus.com/t/script-to-perform-multiple-regular-expressions/3384/) Regular Expressions make it easy to remove characters from the start or end of filenames. This guide should help you learn the basics of regular expressions. Along the way it will also provid…

Google also has pages of tutorials if you just search for "regular expressions". I'm not sure which to recommend, but I'm sure at least some of them are good.

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**Author:** ![khalidhosain](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/khalidhosain/32/28729_2.png) [@khalidhosain](https://resource.dopus.com/u/khalidhosain)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2019, 10:38am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/copy-file-or-folder-name-to-clipboard-ignore-extension-etc/32572/27 "2019-06-23T10:38:24Z")

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Thanks Leo

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