Alignment Overide (Static Prefix)

[pentom]

Hi

I'm having trouble with alignment overrides. My first attempt was this:

StaticText-24-Sep-2013-16-46-58.csv
StaticText-27-Aug-2013-12-36-13.csv


StaticText(-\d{2}-[a-zA-Z]{3}-\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}-\d{2})\.csv
StaticText$1.csv

Then I did some reading on the forums and discovered you can't do an alignment override on a constantly shifting number. I was really disappointed by this. The only reason I bought the pro version was to utilise this feature. Its a pretty big limitation and I don't believe its well communicated in the documentation.

I then tried the following also with using regex. No joy.
StaticText*.csv
StaticText*.csv

Is there are way to match files where the prefix is always ths same without renaming the files. Renaming kind of defeats the purpose for me as I then need to move the files somewhere else and rename as I need to maintain the a repository of files with the date and timestamps intact across environments.

Thanks

[Aaron]

Hello,

The mask examples you have need to match on the equal text between the two files, not the different text. Your mask would match on "StaticText", which could then also be referred to in the replace with $1 if using () RegEx. We do not have a method to mask out a constantly shifting number. A rename of one side could work, matching on something like:
StaticText-24-Sep-2013-16-46-58.csv
to
StaticText.csv

With
StaticText-.*\.csv
to
StaticText.csv


If StaticText were actually VariableText, our replacements would be able to handle that:
Variable-24-Sep-2013-16-46-58.csv
to
Variable.csv

With
(.*)-\d\d-.*\.csv
to
$1.csv

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