Tricky folder's name change

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hi Guys,

I have a lot of folder that i have to change the name very often to upload it on an FTP.

The folder’s name are always written like this:
A project name, a space, open bracket “[”, a letter, 4 numbers, and a closing bracket “]”
XXXXXXXXX [X0000]

I want to chage it to:
remove the brackets [ ] move the X and the 4 numbers at the beginning and add a “space dash space” between the first part and the last part.
X0000 - XXXXXXXXX.

Can someone help me?

Thanks!

#2

Hi.

Try:

tell application "Finder"
	set myFolder to folder ((path to desktop as text) & "abcdefg [h1234]")
	set folderName to name of myFolder
	set newName to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of folderName & " | sed  's/\\(.*\\)\\[\\(.*\\)\\]/\\2 - \\1/'"
	--set name of myFolder to newName
end tell
#3

This handler does the trick


set newName to my trickyNameChange("XXXXXXXXX [X0000]")

on trickyNameChange(old_Name)
	local oTIDs, projName, code
	set oTIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " ["
	set {projName, code} to text items of old_Name
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oTIDs
	return (text 1 thru -2 of code) & " - " & projName
end trickyNameChange

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 12 octobre 2012 17:38:34

#4

Perfect!

You guys ROCK!

Thanks!!!