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I have used in the past a file renamer that can move the string even with variables. I can't find that one but I do love Ant Renamer more anyways.
Is there any posibility that you'd add variable support to the move string?
Using the String replacement first is a pain if dealing with lots of variables.
Thank you,
Nasair

For handling variable strings the regular expressions are usually the easiest way.
If you do not know how to write them, I can give you sample ones for what you want to do (with explanations, so you can also modify them).

I have never been able to do variable expresions with success in Ant Renamer, please give me an example.

To give you an example, I would need to have an example of which kind of change you need to to

Hey, sorry. I missunderstood.
I have three places I would like to do this:
1. move everything from the end to the begning, song 01 - Tina Turner > Tina Turner - song 01
2. Turner, Tina > Tina Turner
3. three one two > one two three
I know I might need to do some value replacement when done to get the finished product but I was hopeing to move things based on being before or after a space " ", dash "-", and comma ","

That one is easy.
The expression for that would be :

(.+) - (.+)\.(.+)

and the next name :

$2 - $1.$3

. means any character
+ means at least one
between parenthesis = a group (represented by $ + group number in the new name)
\. means just a dot (for the extension) : as a . alone has a special meaning it must be preceded by a backslash when you want an actual dot.

For the second example it would work the same way:

expression = (.+), (.+)\.(.+)

new name = $2, $1.$3

I didn't really understand the regular expression, I don't completely understand it now, but I have made some use of it. Thank you a bunch!