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Does Renamer4Mac support backreferences in regular expressions?

April 26, 2017backreferences expressions regular renamer4mac support

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Does Renamer4Mac support backreferences in regular expressions?

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Yes. You can capture groups of a string with (…) and then backreference the groups with \1, \2, … where 1 is the first group and so on. For example if you want to rename files “img_001.jpg”, “img_002.jpg”, “img_00n.jpg” to “01 – Photo.jpg”, “02 – Photo.jpg”, 0n – Photo.