How to set the starting number in to a dialog box in file rename

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I have a button with this code

@filesonly
Rename NUMBER=1 REGEXP PATTERN="^(.*)(\.[^.]+)$" TO="{dlgstring|Enter Album name}{dlgstring|Enter Artist name|. Artist. } ([#])\2"
@nodeselect

What does the button does?
This button Rename The selected files and the Name comes from a input dialog box
and put a incrementing number at the last of the file name.
The number start from value 1
But I want to set another dialog box where I input the Starting number.
If I input The Number value 5
Then The Selected Files will be renamed and starting number will be 5 then 6 then7 then so on
Example:
If the selected file name is
Scan_21-01-2021_2002
Scan_21-01-2021_2007
Scan_21-01-2021_2009
Scan_21-01-2021_2015
Scan_21-01-2021_2017
and I input the name into the rename Dialog box Khalid
then the second dialog box I input Hossain
then the Starting number dialog box should appear and I input the starting number is 5
Then OK. Then the files are rename in
Khalid Hossain (5)
Khalid Hossain (6)
Khalid Hossain (7)
Khalid Hossain (8)
Khalid Hossain (9)
Khalid Hossain (10)
How to do it?

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You've using NUMBER=1 and the number starts at 1.

You want the number to start at 5 instead of 1.

C'mon, you can work this out yourself. :slight_smile:

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@filesonly
Rename NUMBER={start}{dlgstring|Insert Starting Number} REGEXP PATTERN="^(.*)(\.[^.]+)$" TO="{dlgstring|Enter Album name}{dlgstring|Enter Artist name|. Artist. } ([#])\2"
@nodeselect

Finally I got This code worked. Is That OK? or is there more simple way?

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You probably don't want {start} in there but the rest looks OK.

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@filesonly
Rename NUMBER={dlgstring|Insert Starting Number} REGEXP PATTERN="^(.*)(\.[^.]+)$" TO="{dlgstring|Enter Album name}{dlgstring|Enter Artist name|. Artist. } ([#])\2"
@nodeselect

Yes actually This code works without {start}, Thanks Leo.

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