Analyze tool
The Analyze tool lets you preview how the current renaming rules transform a piece of text, and inspect character positions in the input and output, without renaming any files. A typical use is confirming the exact insertion position when setting up an Insert rule.
Open it in either of these ways:
- Analyze Name from the Files context menu, the Analyze button on the Files and Tools toolbar,
Enter, or a double-click on an item in the Files table. This loads the selected filenames into the dialog and applies the rules. - Analyze sample text from the Options menu, or
Shift+A. This only opens the dialog. It does not load the current selection of filenames and does not clear text that is already there.
In both cases you can type or paste text directly into the dialog after it opens.
The available options are:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Automatically apply rules | Apply rules whenever the input text changes, so you do not need to press the Apply Rules button after each edit. |
| Apply rules for each line | Apply the rules to each line individually rather than to the whole text at once. |
| Line wrap | Wrap long lines to fit within the width of the input field. |
Using Line wrap together with Apply rules for each line can produce unexpected results. Line wrapping introduces artificial line breaks, and rules will be applied to each of those wrapped fragments as if they were separate lines.
The dialog works on plain text only. There is no file behind the input, so the result can differ from the New Name column. In particular, FilePath will be empty in Pascal Script rules, and rules that read file properties or Meta Tags have nothing to extract.