User Manual

WAVELAB
14 – 316 Batch renaming
Operations
The following operations are available from the two pop-ups in the Oper-
ations section of the dialog. The upper pop-up selects the category, the
lower the type. Below, all the operation types available for each category
are listed.
Remove category
• All – This operation removes all characters in the selected range.
This can be useful as a start operation if you want to create a new name from scratch.
• Spaces – All space characters are removed in the selected range.
• Spaces at start/end – Space characters at the start and end of the range
are removed.
Any space characters enclosed by other characters are kept.
• Doubloons – Any doubloon of a specified character is removed.
For instance, if you specify “space” as the character, any sequence of more than one space
will be replaced by a single space.
• Specific characters – You can remove any character(s) from the selected
text.
You specify the character(s) to remove in the text field below the type pop-up.
• Surrounded text – You can remove any text from the selected range that
starts with a specific character and ends with another specific character.
This is useful for removing an expression enclosed in parenthesis or brackets. In the “Left
character” text field you specify the character from which removing starts, and the “Right
character” text field sets the character where the removing operation stops. The “Case”
pop-up allows you to specify whether the position of the occurrence, 1st, 2nd, etc., or all
occurrences of this match should be taken into account.
Convert category
• To lower case – All characters in the selected range are set to lower case.
• To upper case – All characters in the selected range are set to upper case.
• Capitalize – The first character is set to upper case, and the rest to lower
case.
There are two options for this operation:
Only once: only the first word in the selected range is capitalized, and other words are set
to lower case.
All words: all words in the selected range are capitalized.
• Initials to upper case – Only single letters are set to upper case.
E.g. “The u.s.a” will be converted to “The U.S.A”.