FileBot

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 "(1)" "(2)" (3) etc [without the quotes] that usually indicate duplicates, and I can't figure out how to remove those brackets and number and not remove other brackets and contents. It is not on all files only those that are duplicate.
Second: I have a bunch of words (10 right now, but could add more) that I remove from the file name. Right now I am just using fn.removeAll("words") for each instance/word that i want to remove. some of the words start with a - and others do not. for example removeAll("-worda").removeAll("wordb").removeAll("word-c") . although this works I can't help thinking it is inefficient and was wondering if there was a way of doing it more succinctly that would allow for the future addition of more words.
thanks for your time and a great program
Kallita

1.
FileBot has a helper function for that one:
2.
/regular expressions/ allow you to describe generic text patterns succinctly: https://regexr.com/

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 When using replaceTrailingBrackets() in this code it will remove the (1) <which is what I want >But it will also remove the (Superscan) from the first one<which I don't want>
I went to the regexr site that you had tagged in your reply and came up with a removeAll(\(1\)|\(2\)) that seemed to work on finding the characters but when I attempted to add it to the filebot script it gives me an unexpected \ error and won't save.
as I said I am a noob for programming so I am thinking I am just missing something. So any help is appreciated.
ps : not sure how to get the code box to pop up.... sorry
kallita

= remove e.g. (1) only at the end

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

This might be too technical, but here's the official docs on slash strings:
https://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/htm ... shy_string

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