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that worked a treat, thank you

the start of the folder name is always demo1333 or whatever number of 4 digit size, but what comes afterwards varies in both size and content.

So:

demo1333 - movies blah/moviename.avi
demo1259 - movies asd gah 11 blah/moviename2.avi
demo1862 - mov/moviename3.avi

are all possibilites.

All I want ...

demo1333 - movies/mymovie1.avi

I want to insert the first 8 characters of the containing folder:
demo1333-mymovie1.avi

I'm doing string insert at the moment:
%folder1%-

and getting:
demo1333 - movies-mymovie1.avi

Any ideas?