Scripting question, [small programming question

[Jeff Kinz]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:43:53AM -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> Could someone help. I have chosen a bad naming convention for a long list, and 
> I need to make a small alteration. The list looks like the following
> 001-Fig 1-1.jpg   
> 013-Fig 4-4a.jpg  
> 024-Fig 5-6.jpg   
> 035-Fig 5-17.jpg
> etc...
> I would like to add a 0 to each group of three numbers at the beginning of 
> each name so that 001-Fig 1-1.jpg becomes 0010-Fig 1--1.jpg for example.
> Could someone help me with the quick way to do this? 


Hi Claude. 
I see you've received some solutions on this so I won't add to them, but
I do want to correct your terminology.

This isn't a programming question.  Its a scripting question.




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Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.