Help with dynamic find and replace button

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Hi, Im trying to make a button which does this rename command.

Now im trying to do this with dialog. With some examples on forum I have this

@nodeselect @set brace1={ @set brace2=} @set Position={dlgstring|Enter character position to replace...} @set Replace={dlgstring|Replace with...} Rename REGEXP PATTERN "^(.{$brace1}{$position}{$brace2}).(.*)" TO "\1{$Replace}\2" AUTORENAME TYPE=files

So this ask me which position to find and what to replace with.
Though I noticed, it ignores the spaces at the beginning and the end.

For example if I run this on 01.Rename.txt and enter position 2 to replace with space dash space it returns 01-Rename.txt instead of 01 - Rename.txt

Could someone help me out with those spaces? thanks

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@set will trim spaces off the start/end, but luckily there's no need for @set to be used with the thing you don't want to be trimmed, so you can do this:

@nodeselect @set brace1={ @set brace2=} @set position={dlgstring|Enter character position to replace...} Rename REGEXP PATTERN "^(.{$brace1}{$position}{$brace2}).(.*)" TO "\1{dlgstring|Replace with...}\2" AUTORENAME TYPE=files

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Great! Thanks Leo. :thumbsup:

How would I modify this to address multiple characters. Say I want 2nd and 3rd character. I tried this old: ^(.{2-3}).(.*) new: \1x\2 but that didn't work.

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Hi Leo.
If I run your code on multiple files it brings up the second dialog box for every file. Is there any workaround to this?

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I'm not sure why it would do that, but these days I would write a script rather than fight with @set and {dlgstring} if they aren't doing what you want with a basic command.

That will let you apply more complex/clever logic for the rename as well.