where is a pattern?

[Skaperen]

i had match bugs with that pattern an re-wrote the code this afternoon using a custom pattern format just for this case. if the pattern had a '0' it tested the character with .isdecimal(), else it compared the character to the pattern character. i had about 3100 files with a name that had the date+time on the end followed by some other stuff in many cases, with the original name at the front. i wanted to transpose each file's original name and date+time to be date+time then original name. some had various time formats, just to complicate things more. some had original names with numbers in them, even dates. but it's done now.