Move files to new folders based on first char of file name

[dwids]

Hello,

Is it possible to use Ant Renamer to move files based on the first letter of their name, to a (new) folder with that letter as its name? For example,

From:

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D:\Reports\king.txt
D:\Reports\Kong.dat
D:\Reports\Mountain.txt
etc

To:

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D:\Reports\k\king.txt
D:\Reports\k\Kong.dat
D:\Reports\m\Mountain.txt
etc

Note the little cASe change :-) I don't want two k folders (k and K), just the lower case one.

I can use a Regex to extract the first character, and can use it to create the new Folder, but it then removes that Char from the file name plus I can't work out the (folders) Case change from K to k. Is this possible?

Thanks!

[antp]

On Windows there is no case-difference so k and K are the same folder.
You can later rename the folders to put them in lowercase in case some were created in uppercase.

You can either insert a \ in 2nd position, and then later add folder name in beginning of the name, but then you'll potentially lose the case of the first letter.
Or as you said use Regexp:
(.)(.*)
replaced by
$1\\$1$2

[dwids]

Thanks for that. I also have folder names that I wish to apply this to, so I will try that as well.

[dwids]

...I also have folder names that I wish to apply this to, so I will try that as well.

...and it works just fine