program to automatically edit filenames
I have a lot of files which I'd like to remove a set of parantheses from the filenames, and there are just too many to do by hand. I was wondering if there would be a way to write a program to search for parantheses in the name of the file and rename it with the parantheses removed. Any ideas? Thanks!
Unfortunetely, you can't do this with standard C++ without any system calls.
or you could make a batch file...
hasafraggin shizigishin oppashigger...
My OS is win xp, but i could also use win 98 if that would make it easier. I'm using Codewarrior for my compiler. I'm not incredibly experienced in coding: how would I make a batch file and how would I use that? Thanks for your help.
well i don't think i'll be going through the trouble of teaching you batch file programming as a whole, but look it up, basically crank up your favorite binary text editor and type in console commands with some wildcard parameters of the changes you'd like to make to your file names and launch it... seek and ye shall find...
hasafraggin shizigishin oppashigger...
I had once made a program which did something of that kind - it renamed all .txt files in the directory to .cpp
I used findfirst()/findnext functions along with rename(). i dont know wether it is std or supported by CW.
What you have to do is just check if the filename contains a bracket and then rename it to your liking.
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Thanks a lot, I appreciate the help.
