DigitalVolcano Software Support

Posted: **Tue Jun 20, 2017 5:08 pm**

I have mp3 files that start with the track # e.g. “02-songname…”.
I have duplicates that instead of the dash there is a blank space e.g. “02 songname…”.
I want to mark the duplicates of the latter type, i.e. the ones with spaces instead of the dash.
I think there is a method called the text pattern. I find it confusing and not sure how it works.
Any suggestions? Help appreciated.

Posted: **Tue Jun 20, 2017 5:53 pm**

Selection Assistant -> Select by text pattern
- Use Regular Expressions

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^\d\d\s

Says to find names that start with two digits followed by a space (followed by anything).

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02    songname.txt
02 songname.txt
02-songname.txt

So it should find:

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02    songname.txt
02 songname.txt

Check your results.

If you only wanted files with a single space after the digits, you could use something like this:

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^\d\d\s{1}\S

Posted: **Wed Jun 21, 2017 1:46 pm**

Perfect! That worked.
Thanks mucho

DigitalVolcano Software Support

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