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akovia

Member

Registered: 2011-03-27

Posts: 62

Bulk Renamer regex no longer works

Been a while since I've used it, so not sure how long this has been an issue.

It is not recognizing and regex at all, but standard matching works fine.
PCRE & PCRE2 are installed. Not sure how to troubleshoot this further.

Thanks!

pacman -Qs pcre
local/lib32-pcre2 10.45-1
    A library that implements Perl 5-style regular expressions. 2nd version (32-bit)
local/pcre 8.45-4
    A deprecated library that implements Perl 5-style regular expressions
local/pcre2 10.45-1
    A library that implements Perl 5-style regular expressions. 2nd version

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ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,341

Re: Bulk Renamer regex no longer works

Can you give an example of a regex that isn't working?

Also see this potentially-related bug report: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/1042

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akovia

Member

Registered: 2011-03-27

Posts: 62

Re: Bulk Renamer regex no longer works

Thanks ToZ, that seems to be the same issue.
It started working after I cleared the old replace string that had capture groups assigned. I never thought to clear it because it was a valid string.
Still doesn't make much sense to me on how it failed, but now it works every time and survives a restart.

Cheers!

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