I've started writing a similar script - although it's for a different purpose (creating lists of files/folders). It's still in alpha stage (not tested a lot, quite a few things might change) but the pattern generation lib is separate from the files/folders part, and has a lot of functions.
I'm certain that the pattern script could be adapted for generating lists in PSPad. Download it here (viz http://files.shinyhappypixels.com/NewFilesALPHA.zip ) Run the hta and press F1 for help, but here are a few of the syntaxes it supports: _File{1-2}.txt_ *(basic numeric)* * File1.txt * File2.txt _File-{a..b}{001..002}.txt_ *(alphabetic+numbers with zero-padding)* * File-a001.txt * File-a002.txt * File-b001.txt * File-b002.txt _Invoice-{Jan-Dec}-2007.txt_ *Month spans* * Invoice-Jan-2007.txt * Invoice-Feb-2007.txt * [... you get the idea] You can also do multiple patterns in one sequence (_File{A-Z,0-9}.txt_), zero-padding and case matching is enforced. It also supports back-references, so the same term can appear twice - which is more useful for files/folders, so you can do this: _Invoices-{Jan-Dec}-2007/{%1}-{001-100}.txt_ Invoices-Jan-2007/Jan-001.txt Invoices-Jan-2007/Jan-002.txt Invoices-Jan-2007/Jan-003.txt [...] Invoices-Feb-2007/Feb-001.txt [....] Basically, pretty nifty. Hope it comes in handy. -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,42625,42718> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
