Custom Sort Name

[njf]

Hi

I am using the sortName to move the opening 'The' to the end of the name and have inserted it in brackets. However, I prefer to limit it to moving 'The' and not 'A' or 'An' because I have so few of these. I don't know whether the Groovy code can be amended to do that but unfortunately I do not understand its syntax.

How can I just move 'The' and not 'A' or 'An'?

[kim]

Are you using the GUI ?
If not, DO IT!

You should try playing around with formats, by adding/deleting stuff
e.g. you use

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{n.replaceFirst(/^(?i)(The|A|An)\s(.+)/, /$2, $1/)}

some of it is filebot only, but mostly you can use java / groovy code...
and in this case also Regular expression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression

so try just to remove the part "|A|An" you know you dont want and then you get

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{n.replaceFirst(/^(?i)(The)\s(.+)/, /$2, $1/)} 

DONE

PS: google the stuff you dont understand

btw: I think my way is better, try this:

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{ny.replaceFirst(/^(?i)(The|A|An)\ (.+[^\ \(\d{4}\)])/, /$2, $1/)}

now the "MOVIE, The (YEAR)"

instead of "MOVIE (YEAR), The" that you get with

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{ny.replaceFirst(/^(?i)(The)\s(.+)/, /$2, $1/)}

if you want to reverse it back to the front then try e.g. :

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{folder.name.replaceFirst(/^(.+),.(?i)(The|A|An)/, /$2 $1/)}/{fn}

[njf]

Thank you. Using that enabled me to work out the expression I needed. Can I just check - when you refer to using the GUI, do you mean the one you see by editing the preset and clicking on the icon to the right of the Expression in the Preset Editor?

I have one more question for now but I will create a new thread as I haven't found the answer and it relates to a different aspect.

[nuckles]

using your script above: {ny.replaceFirst(/^(?i)(The|A|An)\ (.+[^\ \(\d{4}\)])/, /$2, $1/)}

can you please add the code to replace colon (:) with dash ( - )

thank you

[kim]

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