How to do regex renaming with Better File Rename (on Windows)

Question

I can't find any documentation at all about renaming files using the regex functions in BFR.

I know I can use other apps, but I want to use this one. http://www.publicspace.net/windows/BetterFileRename/

I simply want to swap some numbers at the tail of the filename with the text at the head...

like

/(.*)-(\d{6})/

and

$2 $1

Are there some docs or examples out there?

Thanks

Googled that site, products use strange, non standard syntax and definitions for regular expressions. IAC, try /2 and /1 in place of the backreferences you used. — SΛLVΘ, Commented Nov 25, 2015 at 22:30
Thanks. Will try. Apparently one also skips the surrounding // as well. — dwilbank, Commented Nov 26, 2015 at 15:43

dwilbank · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-01 18:01:30Z

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it's \1, \2, etc

The more recent versions of BFR actually show the column names as \1 and \2 to make things easier

answered Dec 1, 2015 at 18:01

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