Replace the Characters

[Sarah30]

Hello,

Is there a possible way to replace the invalid characters in name while renaming with another characters?

For example, when renaming we see that :, ? etc. are invalid characters... so Filebot omits those characters. Now, instead of deleting those characters, can I replace colon (:) with dash (-) or question mark (?) with a exclamation mark (!) and so on?

Thanks

[rednoah]

Yes, a few of the examples do just that:
https://www.filebot.net/naming.html

e.g.

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n.replace('?', '!')

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n.colon(' - ')

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t.removeAll(/[!?.]+$/)

Best to just use the {plex} binding though, because it does all of these cleanup operations implicitly:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4116

[devster]

If you want to be really fancy you can replace as follows:

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":" > "："
"?" > "﹖"

Those are single characters, but it's possible it breaks... stuff...

[rednoah]

As a colon : replacement, I'd recommend ratio ∶
https://unicode-table.com/en/2236/

[jaytee]

Any similar suggestions for multiple replacements? eg something for ? AND something for ; AND the colon suggested?

[rednoah]

e.g. Custom Character Replacement

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{
	n.replace(
		':' : '',
		'-' : '',
		'&' : 'and'
	)
}