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Re: delete first 3 characters in a file name

Subject: Re: delete first 3 characters in a file name
From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:09:12 +0100

At 5:40 PM +0100 09/12/04, Jan-Bultereys wrote:

Does anybody know how to delete the first 3 characters of a variable file name?

meaning: select a couple of files in a folder all starting with 001_test, 103_test2, 203_test3 for example then rename them to test1, test2, test3.....


set s to text 4 thru -1 of s

Emmanuel

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