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On Jun 06, 2013, at 17:48, Iurista GmbH <email@hidden> wrote:

Thanks for that feedback, Christopher.
Unfortunately, this script does nothing at all :-(

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Hey Rudolf,

Hmm...

Okay. The feedback you sent shows that you have some dates that are not of the form dd.mm.yy but of the form d.mm.yy, so that means you might have some that are d.m.yy. That makes a difference, and Thomas' regex is a pretty good way to handle it.

Here's the results, step by step (the filename is "9.12.89 BUPO.cwk" extension is hidden)

Okay. I've made you a movie (available for a week from today):

The movie is slightly off, because I made it before noticing the regex needed to be changed - but hopefully it will still be of value.

Let me know if you still have problems.

Best Regards,

Chris

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try

tell application "Finder"

set theFinderSelection to selection as alias list

if length of theFinderSelection ≥ 1 then

set {oldTIDS, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, linefeed}

set pathList to theFinderSelection as text

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldTIDS

set nameList to change "^.+:" into "" in pathList with regexp

      set nameList to change "(\\d{1,2})\\.(\\d{1,2})\\.(\\d{1,2})" into "0\\3.0\\2.0\\1" in nameList with regexp

      set nameList to change "\\d?(\\d\\d)\\.\\d?(\\d\\d).\\d?(\\d\\d)" into "\\1\\2\\3" in nameList with regexp

set nameList to splittext nameList using linefeed

repeat with i from 1 to (length of theFinderSelection)

set name of item i of theFinderSelection to item i of nameList

end repeat

else

      error "No items were selected in the Finder!"

end if

end tell

on error e number n

set e to e & return & return & "Num: " & n

tell me to set dDlg to display dialog e with title "ERROR!" buttons {"Cancel", "Copy", "OK"} default button "OK"

if button returned of dDlg = "Copy" then set the clipboard to e

end try

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