Music Video Renaming Based On File Name, please help - new user

[RandomNinjaAtk]

I tried searching and have found some good information but not enough for me to figure this out on my own. Anyways, I want to rename Music Videos based on file name below, most of my videos typically have a name structure of:

artist_name-song_title-source-codec-year-group.ext

I want to rename them to:

Artist Name - Song Title.ext

The purpose of this is for use with Plex or Kodi. So far I've come up with this:

{fn.replaceAll("-", replacement = " - ").replaceAll("_", replacement = " ").upperInitial()}

Which will rename the file to:

Artist Name - Song Title - Source - Codec - Year - Group.ext

My questions are is it possible to wildcard a character in a pattern match? Or is there a good way for me to after the second " - " character appears in the filename to trim or drop all remaining text in the file name?

Thanks for any help.

[kim]

try {fn.split(/-/)[0]+' - '+fn.split(/-/)[1]}

[kim]

or in one go
{(fn.replaceAll('_',' ').split(/-/)[0]+' - '+fn.replaceAll('_',' ').split(/-/)[1]).upperInitial()}

[rednoah]

Indeed, if "-" appears only as separator, but not as part of the artist/title, then you can just split and take.

e.g.

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fn.split(/-/).take(2).join('-')

test case:

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'artist_name-song_title-source-codec-year'.split(/-/).take(2).join('-')

[RandomNinjaAtk]

Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll give them a shot!