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14 – 324 Batch renaming
The Shortcuts submenu on the Regular Expression pop-up menu con-
tains the following options:
All special characters used for regular expressions are available from the
“Special characters” submenu.
There is also a Presets sub-menu with pre-defined operations. The items
on this sub-menu are as follows:
End of text $ Put this sign to specify that the sought-after text MUST
be located at the end of the text. Any match not located
at the end of the text is ignored.
Menu item Operator Description
Any digit /d Special code to symbolize any digit, as [0-9].
Any non-digit /D Special code to symbolize any non-digit, as [^0-9].
Any letter /l Special code to symbolize any letter, as [a-z].
Any non-letter /L Special code to symbolize any non-letter, as [^a-z].
Any alphabetic /w Special code to symbolize any alphabetic character, as
[0-9a-z].
Any non-alphabetic /W Special code to symbolize any non-alphabetic charac-
ter, as [^0-9a-z].
Any number /u Special code to symbolize a number (without a sign).
Number with possible
+- before
/i Special code to symbolize a number which can be pre-
ceded by a + or - sign.
Quoted string /q Special code to symbolize quoted text.
Simple word /z Special code to symbolize a simple word (a sequence of
letters surrounded by non-letters, e.g. spaces).
Menu item Description
1st/2nd/3rd word This searches for the first, second or third word, respectively
(separated by a space).
Last word This searches for the last word (separated by a space).
1st/2nd/3rd expression
in parentheses
This searches for the first, second or third string enclosed in
parentheses, respectively.
Menu item Operator Description