thanks for the Groovy page. I will be going through it over the next little while.
kallita

Thanks very much for the help Kim.
Both seem to be working perfectly.
I will continue to play with these and the whole program and hopefully learn more about the regex system.
Kallita

Thanks for the help! I am using filebot on a windows 10 (if that matters) in plain file rename mode here is an example of the file names i am running through filebot: All Star Western 097 (1957) (c2c) (Superscan) 2000AD 2164 (2020) (Digital-Empire)(1) here is the code I am using pretty simple d:\com...

Thanks for any help provided. I am a relative noob to programming but have been able to cobble together several scripts for the gui that run with relative correctness, but am having problems with 2 situations : the first: I have a script to modify a file name but have some files that end with "...