Edit Format: preserve beginning of filename

[Nitesurgeon]

Hey there, love this software. I have some episode titles that are in this format:

031 Star Wars The Clone Wars - S02E19

The number at the beginning signifies the chronological order this episode takes place, since the series as a whole is not in chronological order. I want to rename them with filebot so I get all the episode titles, but preserve the chronology numbers at the beginning, like so:

031 Star Wars The Clone Wars - S02E19 - The Zillo Beast Strikes Back

What is the easiest way to do this by editing the format? My format is like this right now: {n} - {s00e00} - {t}

[kim]

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{absolute.pad(3)} {n} - {s00e00} - {t}

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{fn.match(/\d{3}/)} {n} - {s00e00} - {t}

[rednoah]

{airdate} might also work well since we're talking about chronological order, assuming that episodes were aired in chronological order:

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[{airdate}] {n} - {s00e00} - {t}

[Nitesurgeon]

They were not aired chronologically. It was only after they all aired in season order that they released a chronological viewing order for the whole series. I will try those suggestions and see what happens

[rednoah]

In this case, the fn.match() approach recommended by kim will work best, i.e. just copy over the number from the source file path into the destination file path. Alternatively, the {i} binding (i.e. item row index as seen in the UI) might work as well, but only if you process files sequence by sequence.

[Nitesurgeon]

Awesome, the fn.match() works perfectly. The {i} binding works as well if I am doing all of the episodes at once. What do the "/\" symbols mean in the fn.match though? I can't seem to parse out their purpose

[rednoah]

The /.../ slashy string literal makes writing regular expressions easier:
https://groovy-lang.org/syntax.html#_slashy_string

\ is part of the regular expression, e.g. used for character classes:
https://regexr.com/