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[PowerRename] Allow for padding prefix/suffix

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#4,080 opened on Jun 5, 2020

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Description

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

Allow for padding a filename with a character(s) to a certain number of total characters.

I often need to rename a large number of image files which are named as UPC/PLU codes. The existing file names are variable length and I need to left pad the file names with 0's to 13 digits. For example I may have the following file names: 1234.bmp 123.bmp 1234567890.bmp

The result after the batch rename would need to be: 0000000001234.bmp 0000000000123.bmp 0001234567890.bmp

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Research direction
Investigate the PowerRename codebase to understand how file renaming works, then implement a padding feature that allows prefix/suffix padding with specified characters to a desired total length.
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csharp
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desktop
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3
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