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Re: Renaming files 1-99

Posted by Jeff Hardin on Jan 10, 2007; 5:46pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Re-Renaming-files-1-99-tp3700601.html

Dear Grant,

I had to write a plugin for this for Perkin-Elmer confocal stack  
files. There's no other way I could figure out how to do this. I  
should release this on the ImageJ web site, but need to clean it up  
and comment the code. It involves (a) knowing your naming structure;  
and (b) adding "0"s to pad the file name. The problem is that where  
these zeroes have to go depends on the naming structure, so there is  
no universal renamer that can realistically work.

Hope that helps...

Cheers,

Jeff
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On Jan 4, 2007, at 11:00 PM, IMAGEJ automatic digest system wrote:

> Date:    Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:38:15 -0800
> From:    "McAuley, Grant (LLU)" <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Raw Image Stacks: Image Ordering/Reordering
>
> Sorry if this has been asked before (searched list archives - maybe  
> not right combination of words?).
>
> I need to import stacks of raw images using File->Import->Raw and  
> selecting 'Open All Files in Folder'.  The images have filenames  
> that contain letters and numbers: zz-1, zz-2, ... , zz-10,  
> zz-11, ..., zz-48.
>
> When the stack gets created the order becomes: zz-1, zz-10,  
> zz-11, ... , zz-2, zz-21, ... instead of what I want: zz-1,  
> zz-2, ..., zz-10, zz-11, ...
>
> 1) Can I tell ImageJ to do a numeric instead of alpha sort on the  
> filename numbers when the stack is created?
> 2) If not, is there a better way to resort the stack than the  
> 'Stack Sorter' plugin (nice, but tedious for 48 images/stack)?