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(3 replies, posted in How to ...)

Worked beautifully, thank you so much!
I had a little problem because files were encoded in Unicode LE, so I had to struggle for a while to make findstr work, but at the end I managed! I also did some text editing before using the suggested string in Siren, hence my rename mask was simplier.
By the way, beautiful software, and no euphemism, it's only a matter of time: the help file is very clear and since what I wanted to do was very specific I could spend a few minutes to understand how a software works! (or maybe once you need some unix and you struggle with vi everything seems so easy!!)
Thank you again for the very fast reply!

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(3 replies, posted in How to ...)

Hi, thank you for the great software. It's a little bit user un-friendly at the beginning, but REALLY powerful, I've never seen anything like this before!
I was trying to rename some files from my nokia pc suite: old versions used to output only an incremental message number, newer version outputs sending phone number and date and time the message was received. I'd like to rename everything so to be consistent.
Hence:

00020003.vmg --> +393212345678_2006-06-23.vmg

Since the SMS are exported as text files, it shouldn'be that hard to tell Siren to extract line 8 and line 18 and rename files this way. The "refining" part (deleting TEL: and date:) shouldn't be that big problem.

The file content looks like this:
BEGIN:VMSG
VERSION:1.1
X-IRMC-STATUS:READ
X-IRMC-BOX:INBOX
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:
TEL:+393212345678
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VENV
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:
TEL:
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VENV
BEGIN:VBODY
Date:23/06/2006 15.16.28
Ciao ciao ciao
END:VBODY
END:VENV
END:VENV
END:VMSG

The matter is: how can I tell siren to extract the lines from each file? It looks like that it does need a single external file to work...
Thank you so much for help!