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geniusnet132

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Registered: Yesterday

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Capital letters except inside parentheses or brackets

Hello,
I want to change the initial capital letters of each word in a batch of files, but without changing what is inside parentheses or brackets.

Example:

BEFORE- [Superman] the death of superman (deluxe edition)
AFTER- [Superman] The Death Of Superman (deluxe edition)

Best regards and thank you for your help.

Last edited by geniusnet132 (Today 04:57)

eR@SeR

Senior Member

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 357

Re: Capital letters except inside parentheses or brackets

You can use Pascal script rule. Based on one provided example pattern, this script should work:

var
  BaseName, Prefix, Middle, Suffix: WideString;
  PosStart, PosEnd: Integer;
begin
  BaseName := WideExtractBaseName(FileName);

  // Extract content inside square brackets
  PosStart := Pos('[', BaseName);
  PosEnd := Pos(']', BaseName);
  if (PosStart > 0) and (PosEnd > PosStart) then
  begin
    Prefix := Copy(BaseName, PosStart, PosEnd - PosStart + 1);
    Middle := Copy(BaseName, PosEnd + 1, Length(BaseName));
  end
  else
  begin
    Prefix := '';
    Middle := BaseName;
  end;

  // Extract content inside parentheses at the end
  PosStart := Pos('(', Middle);
  PosEnd := Pos(')', Middle);
  if (PosStart > 0) and (PosEnd > PosStart) then
  begin
    Suffix := Copy(Middle, PosStart, PosEnd - PosStart + 1);
    Middle := Copy(Middle, 1, PosStart - 1);
  end
  else
  begin
    Suffix := '';
  end;

  // Capitalize the middle part
  Middle := WideCaseCapitalize(Trim(Middle));

  // Reconstruct the filename
  FileName := Trim(Prefix + ' ' + Middle + ' ' + Suffix) + WideExtractFileExt(FileName);
end.

What this script does:

- extracts the part inside brackets [] () and keeps it unchanged
- capitalizes everything else using WideCaseCapitalize function
- reassembles the filename with proper spacing

Before:

[Superman] the death of superman (deluxe edition)
[SUPERMAN] the death of superman (DELUXE edition)
[superman] THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN (deluxe Edition)

After:

[Superman] The Death Of Superman (deluxe edition)
[SUPERMAN] The Death Of Superman (DELUXE edition)
[superman] The Death Of Superman (deluxe Edition)

P.S. You can modify script using AI, if required.