CODEWITHSUNDEEP
vbscript
user597496
user597496

Reputation: 57

batch file renaming in vbscript

I have a group of files that are named as such (word can be any word or numbers):

Word word-word word word Floor B2342 Word Word-word.pdf
Word word-word word Floor: B-2342 Word Word-word.pdf
Word word- Floor C43 Word Word.pdf
Word word word- Floor- E2AD342 Word Word.pdf

I want to rename everything in the folder to only have the group that follows Floor... You can count on Floor always being in the file name and what I want to keep following floor.

B2342.pdf
B-2342.pdf
C43.pdf
E2AD342.pdf

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1427

Answers (1)

Tmdean
Tmdean

Reputation: 9309

Pass the path of the folder you want to process as the first argument to this script. You might have to tweak the regular expression for your input.

Set expr = New RegExp
Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set fpath = fs.GetFolder(WScript.Arguments(0))

expr.Pattern = "Floor\S*\s+([^\s.]*)"

For Each fspec In fpath.Files
    Set matches = expr.Execute(fspec.Name)
    If matches.Count = 0 Then
        WScript.StdErr.WriteLine "Invalid file name " & fspec.Name
    Else
        fspec.Move fspec.ParentFolder & "\" & matches(0).Submatches(0) & ".pdf"
    End If
Next

Upvotes: 3

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