Powertoys: PowerRename no longer works with regular expressions

[navairas]

Escribo en el cuadro de búsqueda (.*) y en el de reemplazar $1_0 (porque quiero que le agregue "_0" al final) y en la vista preliminar sale $1_0.pdf, por ejemplo.

[chrdavis]

Translated: I type in the search box (.*) and in the replace $1_0 (because I want you to add "_0" at the end) and in the preview comes out $1_0.pdf, for example.

Did you check "Use Regular Expressions" in the options?

[navairas]

Hola.

Si, he hecho eso. Adjunto una captura de pantalla como ejemplo. Es en la
version 0.14.1.

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El vie., 6 de dic. de 2019 a la(s) 12:21, Chris Davis (
[email protected]) escribió:

Translated: I type in the search box (.*) and in the replace $1_0 (because
I want you to add "_0" at the end) and in the preview comes out $1_0.pdf,
for example.

Did you check "Use Regular Expressions" in the options?

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[rakusan2]

I think a better title would be: Capture groups no longer work in PowerRename

As I am also unable to use them in 0.14.1.0

[crutkas]

1001 fixes the docs. you need to have "Matching" enabled.

[crutkas]

@chrdavis, for being able to do the replacement, do you need the "Matching" checked?

[mrwensveen]

While checking "Match All Occurrences" works, and adding this to the docs is helpful, it is still very much unclear WHY you should check "Match All Occurrences". Besides, I might still want to be able to use capturing groups for the first occurrence.

For example, if I want to replace the second word in my files to its first letter I might want to do this:

Checking match all would replace all words after a space with its first letter:

It's still possible to do what I want of course, even with match all checked, but the current behavior is strange.

[enricogior]

@crutkas
can you take a look at @mrwensveen question? Thanks.