How to find a words within filenames

[alish]

Hello

Im noob here and will appreciate your help.

This is what I need to do :

1. Find files based on their names - Not content inside the files, just words that conclude the file names. i.e. "Excel2007.exe" -> I need to find the word "Word"

2. add random letters\words to their names

3. Move them to another location, each file should be moved according to its name.

I couldn't find how to find a word within a filename.

Thanks ahead guys!

[Melba23]

alish,

Welcome to the AutoIt forum.

You can use StringInStr to search for partial matches within strings - although the example you gave would fail :

$iRetValue = StringInStr("Excel2007.exe", "Word") ; This will fail and return 0
$iRetValue = StringInStr("Excel2007.exe", "Excel") ; This will succeed and return 1

There is no rename function in AutoIt, so you will have to do the other 2 operations at the same time using FileMove:

$sFileName = "Excel2007.exe"

; Break the name down
$sFileNameOnly = StringRegExpReplace($sFileName, "^.*\\|\..*$", "")
$sFileDotExt = StringRegExpReplace($sFileName, "^.*\.", ".$1")

; Add what you want to the file name
$sNewFileNameOnly = $sFileNameOnly & "_001" ; for example, here we add _001

; Recontrwuct the whole
$sNewFileName = $sNewFileNameOnly & $sFileDotExt ; It will read "Excel2007_001.exe"

; And finally move the file
FileMove($sFileName, $sNewFileName) ; you will have to add path info here to make it work

Right, over to you! You know where we are if you run into problems.

M23

[alish]

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply, I greatly appreciate it.

I think I dropped certain details.

I have a folder that contains a lot of files.

I need these files to be distributed to their correspondent folders, based on their names.

i.e.

if I have a file that named 2010-36-72-NN.ISO I want it to be renamed and moved to a folder called 36-72.

The problem is that there are a lot of fies i.e.

2010-36-72-NN3.ISO

2010-36-72-NN7.ISO

2010-36-72-NN8.ISO

2010-22-44-NN0.ISO

2010-22-44-NN1.ISO

2010-22-44-NN7.ISO

In the example you provided, you showed how to find a word within a file you already know its name.

I hope it helps you to understand my needs, and thanks in advance

[Melba23]

alish,

Yes, it would have helped if you had explained what you wanted to do at the beginning and saved my fingers from all that typing!

To extract the 36-72 from 2010-36-72-NN?.ISO is not too difficult - we will have to use StringRegExp. How would you want to rename the file? Can you give some examples like this:

original name          New name     Move to folder
2010-22-44-NN0.ISO     001.fil      22-44
2010-36-72-NN7.ISO     002.fil      36-72

I do hope there is a pattern to the renaming!

M23

[dani]

I'll just contribute some code to move files to new locations, you can edit this where needed. I trust Melba will help you along.

Excuse me for the indent size of 2, Ruby's standards taking over

MoveFiles(@ScriptDir, "ISO")

Func MoveFiles($hDir, $ext)
  FileChangeDir($hDir)
  $hSearch = FileFindFirstFile("*.*")
  $hFile = FileFindNextFile($hSearch)
  While Not @error
    If @extended Then ; $hFile is a directory
      MoveFiles($hDir & "\" & $hFile, $ext) ; Scan the subdirectory. Remove this if you want to exclude subdirs, of course
    Else ; $hFile is a file
      FileChangeDir($hDir)
      If StringRegExp($hFile, "(?i)\." & $ext & "\z") Then
        $hFile = "SomeOtherName." & $ext ; Rename $hFile here if needed
        $target = "C:\TargetDirectory" ; Set $target (= directory) to something useful here
        FileMove($hFile, $target, 8+1) ; Move $hFile to $target (create directory if needed and overwrite existing files -- flag 8+1)
    EndIf
    $hFile = FileFindNextFile($hSearch)
  WEnd
  FileClose($hSearch)
EndFunc

Edited March 5, 2010 by dani